ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Zoo is laying out its plan in anticipation of Mount Spurr’s possible eruption. On Friday, the zoo’s executive director, Tristan Thon, told Alaska’s News Source ...

Take this seal, who is clearly having the time of his life in an aquarium tank. And though aquarium seals don’t face the same ...

On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

In a study in the journal Science, McKnight and his colleagues report they may have found the answer: Seals can directly ...

UnCruise’s floating basecamps offer rare and intimate views of the state’s iconic animals, including whales, bears, salmon, ...

Filter-feeding fish ingest a deadly algal neurotoxin called domoic acid and are then eaten by sea lions, seals and dolphins.

The animal world is full of fascinating (and, let’s face it, bizarre) mating rituals. You will be shocked at the lengths ...

Seals are known for their playful, outgoing, and sometimes quirky behavior. As this video proves, encounters with seals while ...

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New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii ... the university's long-running research on northern elephant seals at Año ...

“To protect an animal like the Mediterranean monk seal in its natural environment, you essentially have to protect the entire marine ecosystem,” he said. Conservation efforts have paid ...