A MYSTERY pod of killer whales from Scotland has been spotted off the coast of Norway. The discovery solves a three-year enigma after the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) made the last known sighting of the pod – never before seen in Scottish waters – off Vatersay on Scotland’s west coast in June 2018. The breakthrough came on July 10 after citizen scientist Asmund Aasheim photographed a pod of six whales in Boroyfjorden in southern Norway and sent his pictures to the Norwegian Orca Survey. Dr Eve Jourdain found that the killer whales were not familiar from Norwegian records. Dr Jourdain looked further afield after she found the colouration on the whales backs, known as a saddle patch, looked different to that of killer whales normally seen around Norway. She found a match in the Scottish Killer Whale Catalogue – a document containing images of all known living killer whales seen in Scottish waters.
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Killer whales John Coe and Aquarius were spotted 550 miles from their Scottish Hebrides home in early May after they made a trip to Porthgwarra near Land s End at the tip of Cornwall.
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