Biologists say the whale, believed to be a young female, was first reported Saturday lying on mudflats near a popular trail.

An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted ... entangled and covered in what appears to be wounds from killer whales.

High tides of the past week might have pushed the whale this far north into the Knik Arm, Keogh said. On Sunday, NOAA biologists and Alaska Veterinary ... samples and photos, Mahoney said.

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The hot spot for whale-ship collisions lies just outside an existing management zone set aside for southern resident killer whales at Swiftsure Bank ... whale alert systems from Washington to B.C. and ...

The majority of gray whales from the eastern North Pacific stock feed in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas during the summer. However, a portion of these whales also feed along the Pacific coast in ...

The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles ...

Fin whales, the world's second-largest whale species, can grow up to 85 feet A 47-foot-long (14.3 meters) female fin whale, an endangered species, was discovered dead near a coastal trail in ...

NOAA biologists are trying to determine how the whale died, while onlookers have gathered to see the large carcass.