Alaska's humpback whales came a step closer to moving off the endangered species list this week when an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a positive initial finding on ...

Throughout town, work by local artists graces coffee shops, tour check-in areas, and outdoor spaces. Seward is even called ...

A humpback whale was severely injured in Glacier Bay. National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last Friday, and it is the result of an apparent collision with a vessel. They don’t ...

Alaska is a location that cannot be sufficiently articulated in writing. Featuring gigantic glaciers along the water, whales ascending from the abyss, forests so dense that they appear endless, and ...

A video shared in a statement from Griffith University shows a handful of long remoras clinging to a whale as it approaches the surface of the water. Right before the whale surfaces, the remoras fling ...

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 ...

According to NMFS estimates, the sablefish pot fishery kills or seriously injures about three humpback whales every two years. On average, about 25 humpback whales are entangled annually off the U.S.

Humpback whales are massive, intelligent, and social creatures residing in all oceans around the globe. These whales can grow up to 60 feet long and weigh up to 80,000 pounds, according to Oceana.

A new study has revealed that humpback whales are shorter than they were in the mid-1900s and there was an 80% drop in crude birth rates in Hawaii between 2013-18. Photo courtesy Martin van Aswegen A ...