Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday. All that remained ...

Last Thursday, Grogan and a few volunteers used a rugged amphibious all-terrain Hägglunds vehicle to get out to the whale ...

A massive dead whale washed onto the North Carolina shore, drawing thousands to a beach 97 years ago.

What is known is that they have a relatively stable supply of deep-swimming cartilaginous fish — such as sharks or rays — ...

The Maine State Museum is preparing to reopen with a centerpiece whale skeleton exhibit, marking a major step in its ...

Credit: SBMNH Credit: SBMNH Credit: SBMNH Driesbach (left), who found the fossil, assisted museum paleontologists and other volunteers to excavate the whale skeleton from the sand. | Credit: SBMNH ...

The baby killer whale is the fourth born into the Southern Resident killer whale population in the past 12 months Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

A dead gray whale measuring about 50 feet in length washed up on the shore in Huntington Beach Friday afternoon, the city’s fire department Marine Safety Division said in a social media post on ...

Jim Borrowman has been defleshing marine mammal skeletons since 1989, when he helped federal scientists transport a dead killer whale from Namu, B.C., to Telegraph Cove, where it was hauled ashore ...

In 2017, the Museum unveiled a female blue whale skeleton as the new star of its reimagined Hintze Hall. The whale, named Hope, stands as a symbol of humanity’s power to shape a sustainable future.

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre ...

A rare juvenile minke whale that had repeatedly been seen stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized Tuesday after officials determined the mammal had little chance for survival. The ...