For decades, a set of “baby mammoth” bones in an Alaska museum promised to rewrite the story of when these Ice Age giants ...

Sandsend Beach in Shapinsay, Scotland. Julie Watkins and Dug Turner found the bottle here while walking their dogs. In April, Julie Watkins and Dug Turner were walking their dogs on Sandsend Beach, ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

The animals included humpback whales, fin whales and a gray whale. — -- It's a whale of a mystery. Thirty large whales have died in the western Gulf of Alaska since May, now deemed an "unusual ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...

A fin whale washed ashore on Anchorage's mudflats over the weekend. By Nov. 18, it had started to freeze over. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Whales hold a deep and an outsized role in Alaska’s ...

Dear EarthTalk: Do scientists have any idea why so many whales are dying in the Gulf of Alaska lately? - Michelle DiCostanzo, New York, NY Over the past four months, 33 large whales have been reported ...

An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal's death. The carcass ...