An endangered humpback whale was recently spotted showing severe injuries from an apparent collision with a boat near Glacier ...

On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, saw an adult humpback whale near ...

Park Service officials said they’re looking for more information on last month’s encounter with what appeared to be a medium ...

A team of wildlife officials collaborated with whale experts to free a humpback whale off the coast of Gustavus, Alaska last month. Sean Neilson/NOAA MMHSRP Permit No. 24359 hide caption ...

Humpback whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth and live in every one of the planet’s oceans. Their seasonal ...

A humpback whale breaches in Kenai Fjords National Park on June 12, 2013. Humpback whales, with their distinctive fins, are being increasingly spotted farther north in Arctic waters used by ice ...

A group of scientists had a "conversation" with a humpback whale in Alaska — and they hope principles learned from it will someday help communicate with aliens. The team was assembled by the ...

A humpback whale appeared in front of an Alaskan paddleboarder as he was floating on Prince William Sound. The whale calmly glided away in a close encounter that could have gone south.

This paddleboarder had an over-whale-ming encounter. Dramatic photos captured the moment a massive humpback whale and a “puny” Alaska man came face-to-face in the Prince Williams Sound off the ...

In a photo provided by Adam Pack and NOAA, the humpback whale Old Timer is seen in Frederick Sound in Southeast Alaska, on July 29, 2024. Old Timer, a male first photographed in 1972, was spotted ...

Qaiyaan Harcharek was hunting for bowhead whales in the spring of 2007 when he first saw a humpback whale in the waters off Utqiaġvik, his hometown and the nation’s farthest north community. He ...