An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while ...

However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive—and scientists have only recently ...

Biologists say the whale, believed to be a young female, was first reported Saturday lying on mudflats near a popular trail.

While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million ...

The carcass was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, near the mouth of Fish Creek and just south of ...

A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare performed a necropsy on a minke whale carcass at the town of ...

Specifically, the population of humpback whales, which remain endangered in some parts of the world, appears to be increasing. These baleen whales have always traveled through the Bay Area, heading ...

Killer whales off Canada's Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that ...