After samples were collected, the whale was buried since it was "unable to be towed back to" the beach due to shallow water.

Humpback whales are protected species under U.S. law and are found in waters across the country including Alaska, mid-Atlantic, Pacific Islands, and West Coast among other areas, according to the ...

Birds surround a humpback whale in Beaufort Sea ... Kate Stafford speaks during the Alaska Marine Science Symposium on Jan. 30, 2025. Utqiaġvik whaler Michael Donovan said he did not witness ...

Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes—like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica)—putting on tons of fat, chowing down on krill and herring. According to recent research, North Pacific humpback ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

A giant conveyor belt For example, thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

For example, thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands ...