Several dozen ravens surround on the carcass of a fin whale on the Anchorage mudflats on March 31, 2025, days after an effort to recover the skeleton began. (Marc Lester / ADN) ...

Belugas lack the dorsal fin that stands up from the back of many whales – think of orcas’ tall, upright fins. These fins help to keep whales upright while swimming. But for belugas, which swim close ...

Mar. 15—The 47-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November, drawing hundreds of visitors and becoming a citywide phenomenon, has found a permanent home at a Wasilla museum.

Beluga whales can live up to 80 years. Mother belugas give birth to babies that are gray and weigh well over 100 pounds. When they assume their full adult coloration of pure snow white, they ...

Watching a laid-back white whale swim past again and again, looking inquiringly to see what decisions will be reached, could result in consensus that beluga whales deserve all the protection we ...

There were also skeletons of a beluga whale, a Cuvier’s beaked whale, a Pacific white-sided-dolphin, otters, a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones.

There were also skeletons of a beluga whale, a Cuvier’s beaked whale, a Pacific white-sided-dolphin, otters, a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging ...

The cause is under investigation, Telegraph Cove Resort co-founder Gordie Graham said on Wednesday. The Whale Interpretive Centre, founded in 2002, housed the largest collection of marine mammal ...

There were also skeletons of a beluga whale, a Cuvier’s beaked whale, a Pacific white-sided-dolphin, otters, a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones.