Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To ...

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In the icy waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay, a new study reveals how a small population of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas ...

The study authors expected to find that males were competing heavily for mates and mating with multiple females, in a ...

The strategy is the mysterious reason why beluga whales have such a diverse genetic population despite being an isolated ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum history and surprising scientists worldwide.

In a 13-year study, researchers found beluga whales "mate swap" to preserve genetic diversity in isolated environments.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are endangered and require additional protection to survive, the government declared Friday, contradicting Gov. Sarah Palin, who has ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

A n isolated Alaskan population of beluga whales is small enough that inbreeding could be a major threat. Yet they remain ...

Alaska's humpback whales came a step closer to moving off the endangered species list this week when an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a positive initial finding on ...

Humpback whales aren’t just recovering in numbers. Learning to hunt together may help them survive a warming, unpredictable ...