Too much of the time, science is computers and labs and statistical analysis, but every once in awhile there comes the payoff: field work. Each winter, biologists from Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife snowmobile into the back woods, dig out bear dens, and run health checks on one of the state’s more charismatic [...]

Peninsula Valdez in Argentinian Patagonia is the only place in the world where orcas beach themselves in pursuit of sea lion pups. Now, after years of settling for the smaller animals, the orcas are going for bigger, more dangerous game: elephant seal pups. Captured in a new National Geographic documentary, “Orca Killing School” shows how the orcas pass their unique hunting strategy down to their offspring–and go after the supersize meals.>>>