18+ hour, 49+ min ago  (478+ words) The mystery orcas are back in town. A trio of unidentified orcas, never observed in the Pacific Northwest before, showed up in early March, first in Canada's Vancouver Harbour, then in the busy ports of Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia. Where…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1354+ words) One of the Northwest's most common animals has all but disappeared from much of the region. Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (783+ words) Washington's first statewide survey of bees has found dozens of species new to the state. Several long-lost species, turned up by citizen-scientists with nets and specimen jars, had not been seen in Washington for a century or more. The state…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1325+ words) Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington Governor Dan Evans" office witnessed a crew hired by…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (616+ words) While cougar attacks are exceedingly rare in Western Washington, when they happen, they tend to get a lot of attention. On Sunday, July 20, a cougar grabbed a 4-year-old boy on a popular hiking trail in Olympic National Park and dragged…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (745+ words) Here's a question you might never have asked yourself: How do you vaccinate a bat? You can't simply ask your local vet. Nor will the bats line up outside of a clinic on their own. But a group of Chinese…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (646+ words) Three mystery whales have been surprising whale watchers from Canada to Olympia. When somebody gets the thrill of seeing an orca in Northwest waters, that whale is almost always well known. Scientists have probably given it a number and documented…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (807+ words) Greetings, and welcome aboard Goose Airlines. It's a beautiful and clear March day, perfect for our flight north today. I'll be your flight attendant on this journey. Our pilots have started returning from the south. They started traveling northbound flights…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (807+ words) For 11 days in late summer 2025, Aleksey Maro found himself in the Ugandan rainforest, doing whatever he could to collect chimpanzee urine. "The most consistent, predictable time is in the morning. Just like people, the first thing they do when they…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (40+ words) Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee)KUOW Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee) He suffered two strokes. This electric brain implant helped him regain use of his arm...