Killer whales, including calves and juveniles, travel in their family group in the Gulf of Alaska in June 2025. It’s well documented by now that the marine heatwave that hit the Pacific Ocean in 2014 ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

A bowhead whale and calf swim in an open-water lead in the Arctic Ocean in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) A long-term study of bowhead ...

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal. Second of three parts.

ALASKA -- An orca that became stranded on a rocky beach in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Thursday morning was freed with the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Belugas swim in the sea off Alaska. One small population of beluga whales living in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay appears to have ...

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Maui-based Whale Trust organization, the Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua, will host a five-day Whale Tales 2026 event Thursday, Feb. 19, through Monday, bringing ...

Beluga whales in the High Arctic during summer. A group of beluga whale bulls in a bay, followed by two cow-calf pairs in a shallow river estuary. An all-male group of beluga whale bulls swims ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Everybody may love whales, but maybe they're not so hot on that for the title of a movie. KTUU reports (http://bit.ly/pvFMbL) the movie formerly ...