ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The federal National Marine Fisheries Service today took the first steps towards protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in ...

According to official data, all the marine mammals released before November 2019 have returned to their natural habitat and are staying in the habitat areas of their wild relatives VLADIVOSTOK ...

At birth, beluga whales are 5 feet long, roughly 100 pounds ... designating almost 2 million acres of critical habitat three years later. When Alaska filed suit challenging the white whale's ...

Their work with the Cook Inlet beluga whales not only helped get the stock listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2007 and pushed for designation of over 3,000 square miles of ...

This is larger than some whales—the beluga whale included. However ... the species is now recognized by the IUCN as Critically Endangered. Overfishing, poaching, habitat loss, pollution, loss of ...

a baby beluga whale born to 35-year-old mother, Naya! Earlier in the day, the aquarium said its animal care team realized Naya was going into labor and closed the Secluded Bay habitat to visitors.

The first beluga whale calf born at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium in several years is now seven months old and is being slowly introduced to the rest of the aquarium's pod of whales. (AP Video: Melissa Win ...

Getty Images The beluga whale pictured on Saturday coming up for ... of the River Seine - as opposed to its natural salt water habitat - or a sign of the animal's deteriorating health.

This is larger than some whales—the beluga whale included ... Overfishing, poaching, habitat loss, pollution, loss of access to spawning grounds, and depressed reproduction rates are just ...