Humpback whale populations, once severely depleted ... winters breeding in the waters around Hawaii and summers in Southeast Alaska, filling up on fish and tiny shrimplike animals known as krill.

a pregnant 23-year-old humpback. The whale had a long history of being sighted in Southeast Alaska and Hawaii. A necropsy found evidence of “blunt force trauma,” suggesting the whale was ...

A humpback whale breaches in Kenai Fjords National Park on June 12, 2013. (Photo by Kaitlin Thoreson/National Park Service) Two dead whales were discovered last month in Southeast Alaska waters ...

An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale ... located about 60 miles southeast of Anchorage. They had seen the whale in the fjord, which is about 2 miles ...

The second humpback whale was reported floating near Point ... spotted as a calf in 2001 and has a sighting history in Southeast Alaska and Hawaii,” the agency’s report notes.

I'm optimistic about this new venture because my trip to Southeast Alaska helped lead to the making of Secrets of the Humpback Whale, a Discovery Channel documentary narrated by Academy Award ...

“Humpback whale sightings in Hawaii and southeast Alaska dropped for a few years afterward, and to this day have not recovered to the numbers beforehand,” says Stack. “We don’t know if ...

The group of whales or a single whale dives down deep below ... The new study looked at a population of humpback whales in southeast (SE) Alaska that eventually migrates to Hawaiʻi to mate ...

Getting a whale's eye view of dinnertime ... bubble nets in high detail in the waters of southeast Alaska. The netting works like this: first, a humpback swims into a cloud of krill.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology biologists used drone imagery to understand how nursing humpback whale ... in partnership with Alaska Whale Foundation ...