NOAA has received report of a gray whale stranded along the coast of Kodiak. The report came in late yesterday to NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement Kodiak Office and the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak, a NOAA marine mammal stranding partner. This is the third dead gray whale reported this year in Alaska, along with a carcass reported […]
Marine mammal experts with NOAA Fisheries and the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network are monitoring the position of a dead gray whale in Turnagain Arm near Anchorage, Alaska, hoping for an opportunity to conduct a necropsy (animal autopsy). The latest reported location of the carcass is a couple hundred yards offshore from the Placer and Twentymile rivers. At […]
It was a rare find: a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach in Alaska’s famed Inside Passage in Southeast Alaska. Sperm whales, which are endangered, usually hang out in deeper, offshore waters. This one—a 48-foot long male—was found beached on the east side of Lynn Canal, north of Berners Bay near Juneau. This is the first […]
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]EWPORT, Ore. – Blue whales reach their massive size by relying on their exceptional memories to find historically productive feeding sites rather than responding in real time to emerging prey patches, a new study concludes. Researchers examining records of both whale migration and oceanic conditions in the California Current Ecosystem found that blue whales almost perfectly […]