Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims in an ocean chock-full of dangers such as pollution, shipping, oil ...

Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims in an ocean chock-full of dangers such as pollution, shipping, oil ...

As utilities warn of the possibility of rising costs and rolling blackouts, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and key lawmakers say ...

Mom is 35-year-old Naya, but there are two mature males in Shedd’s pod. DNA testing revealed that Beethoven, the oldest male ...

While the US took a leap toward beluga conservation in October by adding Cook Inlet belugas to the Endangered Species List, the animals remain grossly overhunted in Greenland. The country’s ...

"Unfortunately, those beluga whales create a lot of headaches for anyone that wants to do anything in the Cook Inlet," he said. (The Cook Inlet population of beluga whales is federally listed as ...

Fin whales can be found in the lower Cook Inlet, but not in the upper inlet as there isn’t enough food for them there, Mahoney said. Experts will conduct a necropsy to determine the animal’s ...