A 13-year genetic study of 623 beluga whales in Alaska’s Bristol Bay has overturned a long-standing assumption about how ...

Beluga whales in Alaska's Bristol Bay seem to avoid inbreeding in a surprisingly effective way by changing mates over time.

Genetic samples collected from 623 beluga whales over 13 years in Bristol Bay, Alaska, have exposed a mating system far more ...

The government has declared Beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet endangered, and they'll need special protection if they're going to survive. The number of whales plummeted 50 percent in just four ...

SeaWorld officials say an endangered beluga whale rescued off Alaska’s coast is thriving in his new theme park home. The whale Tyonek was flown from the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, to ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - A government agency used the best available science before adding the beluga whale population of Alaska's Cook Inlet to the endangered species list, a federal judge ruled. Alaska ...

In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, provided by NOAA Fisheries, a newborn beluga whale calf sticks its head out of the water in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska. The population of endangered beluga whales in ...

Utqiagvik hunters Jared Nayakik and Billy Adams cut and packaged bricks of pink meat, sharing their whale harvest with everyone in the room. “The season was good for Barrow — we’ve landed quite a few ...

A team of experts from across North America is working around the clock to try to save a beluga whale calf found beached in Alaska in late September. The beluga is at the Alaska SeaLife Center in ...

TACOMA, Wash. - The Orca Network says they have confirmed sightings of a Beluga whale in the inland waters of the central Puget Sound since at least Sunday. Beluga whales aren't native to the area.