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In the morning light, observers on shore in Edmonds spotted a handful of pointy black dorsal fins just north of the cross-sound ferry lanes.
The participants were the Northwest’s endangered orcas. All 74 of them gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion for every member of the southern resident killer whale population.
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