For the first time ever recorded, orca washes ashore in Florida.
The beluga had a ruptured intestine probably related to parasites, which were found in the whale’s abdomen, lungs and kidneys, Burek said. The parasites likely led to an entanglement within a section of the intestines, leading it to rupture. “Very unusual,” Burek said. “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Biologists believe the 18- to 20-foot whale may be sick or injured. It’s unclear if it will be able to swim out during high tide.
The Seward facility began housing five seals found in the Cook Inlet area and another that was rescued in Juneau.
Sea ice in the Chukchi Sea disappeared far earlier than normal this spring as a result of exceptionally warm ocean temperatures.
The sea lions have posed a long-running conundrum for wildlife officials, pitting mammals protected under federal law against protected — and valuable — fish runs.
A pilot first spotted the whale last week. What caused the whale’s death isn’t yet known.
A Wales resident shot and killed the bear. With the loss of sea ice and the ocean staying open later in the year, polar bears have been spending more time on land, which increases the chance of human encounters.
Aerial surveys this September and October show the bowheads aren’t where they usually are.
It’s rare to see humpbacks in Turnagain Arm, known for its swift tides and shallow waters.
Sea ice has shrunk, but scientists are seeing signs that Alaska's bowhead whales are flourishing.
NOAA has declared an “unusual mortality event” for gray whales on the North American west coast and launched an investigation.
Why did the sea lion cross the road? Scientists don't know yet.
A second whale has been found dead floating in the middle of Turnagain Arm, just two weeks after a juvenile humpback whale was found dead on the Arm after stranding itself twice.
The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.
Walruses over the last decade have come to shore on the Alaska and Russia sides of the Chukchi Sea as sea ice diminishes because of global warming.
The notoriously difficult-to-study Pacific walrus population decreased by about half between 1981 and 1999, likely due to hunting and changes to sea-ice habitat, according to a new USGS study that is considered the most up-to-date and comprehensive so far. The Pacific walrus is being considered for Endangered Species Act protections.
NOAA is monitoring significant numbers of gray whale deaths this spring along the Pacific coast.
Thinning sea ice has driven more than 50 polar bears ashore on an Arctic archipelago in northern Russia, causing chaos for the local population.
The third such bite in two years prompted a police warning in the Aleutian Islands town.
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