The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles ...

WhaleSpotter technology is designed to alert ship crews when there is a whale nearby and give them an opportunity to change course or stop. "We are enabling a vessel to detect a whale well ahead of ...

Over the last three decades, 37 killer whales were entangled in fishing gear in Alaska, which resulted in 25 deaths, according to a new report issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A fin whale washed ashore on Anchorage's mudflats over the weekend. By Nov. 18, it had started to freeze over. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Whales hold a deep and an outsized role in Alaska’s ...

KAKE, Alaska. – A rare white killer whale was recently spotted off the southeast coast of Alaska. The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) says people on an 80-foot charter boat witnessed the ...

A federal judge has awarded an environmental group more than $1.6 million for prevailing in a lawsuit against Endangered ...

The animals included humpback whales, fin whales and a gray whale. — -- It's a whale of a mystery. Thirty large whales have died in the western Gulf of Alaska since May, now deemed an "unusual ...

A group of scientists had a “conversation” with a humpback whale in Alaska — and they hope principles learned from it will someday help communicate with aliens. The team was assembled by the SETI ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club sued the federal government today for failing to properly evaluate harms from the Alaska LNG project to several threatened and ...

A whale carcass lies on the bow of a cruise ship at a port in Seward, Alaska. A veterinary pathologist worked Monday to determine what killed the juvenile fin whale. Matt Faust AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska A ...