A humpback whale near Glacier Bay National Park was recently injured by a suspected vessel strike near Willoughby Island. The ...

Whale watchers are heading out in growing numbers, and knowing where to go whale watching helps them catch the action at its ...

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

Blue whales can still be seen though ... and whales are no exception. Alaska is the home of the humpback whale breeding ground, where they migrate to every year. The rich fishing grounds are also ...

And so to Alaska, home to the world’s biggest rainforest, mid-summer snow caps and more than 650 glaciers, where every holiday moment is framed in sweeping, chocolate-box mountainscapes. And, ...

Pictures show the whale with a large gash behind its dorsal fin. The injury was caused by a boat propeller during late June.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The carcass of a young beluga whale was found Friday by canoeists on the Tanana River about 40 miles southwest of Fairbanks — or nearly 1,000 river miles from the Bering ...

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the first blue whale of the season, these events have stunned onlookers and ...

School just let out for the day, and students in the tiny Southeast Alaska community of Whale Pass quickly hustled to change into their taekwondo uniforms. They then gathered on a blue mat in one ...

Blue whale spouting off the coast of Kaikoura, Aotearoa (New Zealand) on February 11th, 2024. Image courtesy of Avery Ancell.

Whale census takers in California report seeing much fewer female gray whales with calves this year as they head north to feeding grounds in the Arctic. NOAA Fisheries ...