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Sea stars, crabs and snorting clams: What can you find in the low tide of Puget Sound?
Crunching along the rocky beach Tuesday, Easton pointed out a host of brightly colored starfish, squishy anemones, sand ...
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Local groups adding estuary segment to this year’s Procession of the Species
The Puget Sound Estuarium and Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team (DERT) are working on the critters and plants that will ...
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Sixty years later: More than 100,000 tires from failed reef plan are coming out of Puget Sound
The department said rockfish and lingcod have life histories that make them particularly vulnerable to overfishing and they were rapidly depleted from the few rocky outcroppings in Puget Sound ...
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A narwhal in Puget Sound? Seattle just got pranked
The joke was on us Tuesday morning when an Instagram post claimed a narwhal had been spotted in local waters for the first ...
Baby orca is a descendent of a whale almost sold to SeaWorld in 1976
A new orca whale calf spotted in Puget Sound in Washington State is the latest addition to a well-known family of killer ...
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New orca calf born to descendant of whale once captured and held by SeaWorld
SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family ... orca calf was spotted Thursday in the Salish Sea. The calf was spotted several additional times over ...
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Sea stars, crabs and snorting clams: What can you find in the low tide of Puget Sound?
Rachel Easton, education director at Harbor WildWatch, points to sea life during a tour at low tide at the Fox Island Sand Spit, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Sometimes there’s only a handful of ...