Environmentalists say gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and ...

The PR team for Beluga whales is really killing it lately. In the span of 10 days we’ve seen two Beluga whale stories hit the news cycle for the most bizarre and incredulous of reasons.

Bottlenose dolphins can hear each other under the water up to eight miles. Baleen whales typically have two blowholes. Toothed whales have one blowhole. There are only 15 baleen whale species and they ...

A local business shared footage of the whales leaping out of the water off the coast of Aberdeen over the weekend. Aberdeen Harbour Tours shared footage on social media of the whales leaping out of ...

Mostly the volunteers spot whale spouts – plumes of mist from the mammals breathing air through their blowholes. Occasionally, they might see a tail slap or a breach – an acrobatic leap out of ...

A new study has found the southern right whale population recovery seems to have recently stalled at a level far below pre-whaling levels. Researchers say they are fearful it might signal the "end ...

WE’RE REALLY EXCITED. I GUESS WE’LL GET TO SEE OUR BELUGA WHALES, AS WELL AS OUR WALRUS HERD. THIS WILL BE HIS DEBUT. A RESCUED WALRUS CALF THAT HAS GAINED QUITE A FOLLOWING. SO SEAWORLD ...

A fisherman captures footage of the killer whale off the Northumberland coast on Tuesday morning. An international search is under way for a suitable home for the orcas stranded in France.

The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), often called the “sea canary” due to its diverse vocalizations, possesses a unique talent among marine mammals – the ability to mimic human speech. This ...

Any weakness here could risk a breakdown in momentum and potentially reverse recent gains. Yet, the massive whale transaction casts a shadow over this progress. Large token transfers to centralized ...

Kirsten Freja Young is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the University of Exeter and also works as an independent consultant to Greenpeace Research Laboratories. Marion Rossi does not work for ...