The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

We all must accept that, like spring ephemerals, our lifespans are limited, and so we should make the most of the time we ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

A new multiyear offshore program, to be unveiled soon, will include a reconfigured Arctic area where future lease sales will ...

For the Inupiat, it's the bowhead whales that migrate off the Arctic coast. "I think the Gwich'in and the Inupiat, despite their differences, are united in their fear of what development could ...

Whales: Take a boat in Prince William Sound or Resurrection Bay and, if the timing is right, you’ll see the tails of humpback, bowhead and gray whales waving in the distance. A few of the other ...

There are fourteen species of baleen whale – including blue, bowhead, right, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales. Baleen whales are whales that have “baleen plates” instead of teeth.

WITH RESEARCHERS WHO ARE LOOKING INTO THIS TREND. FOUR OF THE FIVE WHALES FOUND IN THE LAST MONTH ARE GRAY WHALES. AND RIGHT NOW, WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR MIGRATION FROM MEXICO, WHERE THEY ...

As humans, we can live as long as 80 to 120 years or even more, but there are some animals that exceed this number and can ...

Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a month, officials said. The female gray whale drifted overnight on ...