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A female Humpback whale with her calf (Illustrative). (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Whale then (pun intended), without further ...
An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal's death. The carcass ...
Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats Scientists aren’t sure how the juvenile female whale died. Also unclear: how long the ...
The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage.
Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...
Fin whales, the second-largest whale species after blue whales, were previously protected due to overhunting.
The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and ...
A 47-foot fin whale washed ashore along Anchorage’s coastal trail over the weekend. Hundreds of people ventured out onto tidal flats Sunday to take a look at the carcass in the sun. The first ...
Crowds in Anchorage have braved freezing temperatures and slippery ice to see the hulking carcass of a rare fin whale, which washed ashore a few miles from downtown.
Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...
The fin whale – the second largest whale species in the world – became stranded on the surf line at Torrance Beach in California around 6 p.m. where it reportedly appeared in distress.