Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday. All that remained ...

Shark fin soup is a popular (and pricey ... protections have previously been achieved for a number of shark and ray species, including basking and whale sharks in 2003; great white sharks in 2005; ...

On one occasion, she grabbed the skin under a whale shark’s first dorsal fin as it cruised by. She held on, going ever deeper underwater until, at some point, it occurred to her she’d better ...

The whale footage? More CGI than a superhero movie. Even the disclaimer at the start played hide and seek, briefly flashing like a shark fin at sunset before anyone could actually read it.

Whale sharks, the largest fish in the ocean, have eluded scientists regarding their mating habits. Recent clues from St ...