One whale-watched said it appeared to be a mother orca with a large dorsal fin and three to four young orcas.

Federal officials have shut down salmon and recreational fishing for the summer in key feeding grounds for killer whales. The closures, which took effect Friday, apply to parts of the southern . . .

Cook Inlet beluga whales are swimming up the Kenai River earlier in the year and in greater numbers than previously estimated, according to new monitoring of the endangered species.

The remains of a possible seal carcass tangled in netting may have come into contact postmortem, "ghost fishing" as a potential cause.

In the last 15 years, polar bear hunters in eastern Greenland have had to adapt their hunting practices because of climate change,

Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska's Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback.

The first right whale of the season has been spotted in Canadian waters after an unprecedented winter in which not a single calf was spotted.

Sea ice has shrunk, but scientists are seeing signs that Alaska's bowhead whales are flourishing.

The Finnish Coast Guard came to the rescue of a whale caught in a fish trap on Saturday in the narrow region of the Gulf of Bothnia known as Kvarken.

At the time of the encounter, Einar had been line fishing for a while. He and his boatmate had just been talking about how many whales were around.

Two hundred walruses surprised residents on an Alaskan peninsula after arriving en masse on a beach.

The ice conditions are similar to last year (with) lots of young ice and close leads," said Captain Frederick Brower. "We all went out and broke trail to the edge, but a high west wind came along and added about three-quarters to 1 mile of ice and (we) had to break trail through that and began whaling from the new edge ... . The conditions were not favorable but we made due with what we had and continued on with our whaling season."

Residents saw a few hundred walrus hauled out at the beginning of April. By the end of April, they reported seeing about a thousand. On a recent flight over the shoreline, an ADF&G biologist saw only 100.

Unalaskans are used to spotting marine mammals around the island. But lately, they're not just seeing whales or otters. They're seeing ringed seals — an Arctic species that typically lives far north of the ice-free Aleutian Islands.

Biologists are investigating a surprising connection between two animals that aren’t exactly well loved in parts of Southeast. Gustavus locals suspect wolves are picking off deer at a popular hunting spot on an island near the mainland.