The contour of the land…

Orca non here….

New species: Type D

At the bottom of the world, in some of the roughest seas, live mysterious killer whales that look very different from other orcas.

Now, for the first time, scientists have located and studied these animals in the wild. The orcas are “highly likely” to be a new species, says Robert Pitman, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The scientific team made the finding in January about 60 miles off the coast of Cape Horn, Chile, at the very tip of South America—a region with the “world’s worst weather,” Pitman adds.

The region where they are found, between latitude 40 and 60, has some of the most inhospitable weather on the planet, with strong winds and frequent storms that have earned them the nicknames of the “roaring 40s” and the “furious 50s.”

Their choice of home, combined with the fact that they live in the open ocean, explains why the killer whales are so little known.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/new-killer-whale-species-discovered/