The long saga of the 48-foot whale that washed up on the shores of Cook Inlet in November continued this week.

It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping away with the tide. With permission from federal ...

MIT’s Florencia Pierri and Elisabeth (Libby) Meier curated the show. The wall texts they provide are both lively and ...

A newly discovered fossil of a four-legged whale in Peru sheds new light on the evolution of whales and their journey across ...

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in ...

“This is unusual,” said Kathi George, director of Cetacean Conservation Biology ... on Bay Area beach Whalefest Monterey stars a whale skeleton, abalone races on April 12-13 Juvenile minke ...

EMERYVILLE — A juvenile whale who beached itself several times since it was first spotted in the San Francisco Bay last week ...

Whalefest Monterey stars a whale skeleton, abalone races on April ... estimated the length to be about 20 feet. The center’s Cetacean Conservation Biology Team identified the whale to likely ...

The only other cetacean species to have gone extinct at ... The animal is so poorly known, and vanishing so quickly, its skeleton may be the richest source of data about the species that we ...