It’s now been more than a month since a 47-foot fin whale washed up on the Anchorage coastal flats, near the mouth of Fish Creek. In those first days after the whale’s Nov. 16 appearance, the ...

A whale has drawn crowds to Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor. The whale is approximately 20 to 25 feet long and is believed to be in its teens. It appears to be in good health, and experts think it is just ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine -- Whale watching was even more hit or miss than normal this summer off the New England coast. Boat operators and marine experts say large migratory whales were unusually scarce from ...

PLEASURE POINT — Pleasure Point is revealing another of its treasures, this time the bones of a sea creature drawing low-tide gawkers to the sandstone beds below the bluffs. The fossilized skeleton of ...

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