Cool story of the day: White Killer Whale Spotted off Alaska

[Shakespeare]

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/white-killer-whale-spotted-off-alaska/20080307090209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (March 7) - The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras.

The nearly mythic creature was real after all.

"I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it," said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle who photographed the rarity. "It was quite neat to find it."

The whale was spotted last month while scientists aboard the Oscar Dyson, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship, were conducting an acoustic survey of pollock near Steller sea lion haulout sites.

It had been spotted once in the Aleutians years ago but had eluded researchers since, even though they had seen many of the more classic black and white whales over the years.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Shakespeare!

How cool is that!

I saw it in today's L A Times...

Apparently it's a good thing that it isn't a true albino...

They don't live as long...

:hi:

[Bake]

2. All they got was one lousy picture of the dorsal fin?

Crap!! I must see this beast!

Bake