The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

The NOAA team said they plan to leave the whale alone for now. It appears healthy, and scientists don't want to cause the animal stress. For now, they are giving it a chance to leave on its own.

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

got stuck and passed away," said Justin Viezbecke with NOAA. "The efforts today by our partners are going to help us figure out what happened." The minke whale was spotted near a Catalina Express ...

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) removed an estimated 550 feet of fishing equipment from a humpback whale's mouth and head off the coast of West Maui, Hawaii A mother ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.