The author and his neighbors in Point Lay Alaska had several close encounters with polar bears in the mid-90s.

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Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

A nightmare for whale conservationists has been a dream for a shiver of hungry sharks. A North Atlantic right whale that was suffering from fishing gear injuries has been found dead off the coast of ...

Named for their steeply arched upper jaw that resembles an archer’s bow, the bowhead whale (balaena mysticetus) is the longest living mammal species discovered to date.

A dead humpback whale washed up near Bethany Beach on Jan. 8, according to the nonprofit Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute. The juvenile male was first seen Jan. 6, floating at ...

BETHANY BEACH, Del. - Chopper 16 was overhead the body of a dead whale floating off the coast of Bethany Beach on Thursday. The whale, which appears to be a humpback, was seen flipped on its back in ...

Deena Emera was mesmerized by the images on the screen. “They were beautiful,” she says of the slides she saw in December—each a microscopic closeup of a bowhead whale’s ovary. The images were ...