On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

Dugan Paul Daniels had previously agreed to the sentence as part of a plea agreement for attempting to kill a whale, and the judge confirmed it.

Many travelers make the trek to Alaska for two things ... North Pacific humpbacks and orcas are the two most common types of whales migrating through these calm waters. Humpbacks feed off krill ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors ...

The Museum of Alaska in Wasilla, formerly known as the Alaska Museum of Transportation and Industry, plans to take possession of whale’s skeleton for use in an eventual educational display ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale ...