Wildlife

Scientists aren’t sure how the juvenile female whale died. Also unclear: how long the bus-sized carcass will remain on tidal flats.

U.S. officials are proposing to declare as endangered three subspecies of northern giraffe: the West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes, whose population together has plunged by 77% since 1985.

Biologists believe the animal was a young female. How it died remains a mystery.

Biologists said they weren’t sure why the animal died and planned to continue their examination on Monday.

With some estimating their population in the hundreds, rabbits are wreaking havoc at Aquarian Charter School. The city is preparing to try to live-trap them.

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a warming environment in Alaska and Siberia.

Federal prosecutors are also recommending that Dugan Paul Daniels pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing for a year after lying about fishing catches.

On Halloween, which was also the last day of International Bat Week, a hoary bat with a feisty personality named “Hoary Potter” won the final round of an annuall contest put on by the Bureau of Land Management.

Weighing as much as a cup of walnuts and resembling a squeaky dog toy, the ermines are easy to underestimate.

The grizzly known as No. 399 was beloved by nature photographers, wildlife enthusiasts and other park visitors. At age 28, the bear was the oldest reproducing female grizzly in the Yellowstone ecosystem.

Wildlife is encountering diseases not previously seen in their lifetimes. As the world continues to warm, scientists are taking stock of current threats and how to prevent major losses - especially in the delicate Arctic environment.

Grazer, whose cub was killed this summer by another bear featured in the contest, was crowned the bulkiest bruin by more than 40,000 votes.

A pair of deer hunters survived a close-call brown bear attack on Admiralty Island during a surprise encounter

He came to Alaska as a young man to study seabirds on this barren barrier island. Decades later, he found the fingerprints of climate change. After a lifetime, will he see this colony disappear?

One killer whale was caught this season by trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea, down from nine last year. The trawlers had deployed underwater web fences to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets.

Organizers introduced this year’s contestants on Tuesday — a day late — because one anticipated participant, a female known as 402, was killed by a male bear.

Thursday’s decision was the latest development in a yearslong fight over seal protections in Arctic Alaska.

Scientists are studying whether changes in water temperature may have played a role.

Katmai National Park’s wildly popular annual celebration of ursine behemoths is about to begin.

A purported sighting of a rat wouldn’t get much attention in many places around the world. But it caused a stir earlier this year on St. Paul Island.

Donna Gail Shaw has maintained a hidden network of trail cameras that record the life-and-death wildlife dramas that play out in the backyard of Alaska’s biggest city.

Porbeagle sharks aren’t known to have predators, but a new study says it recorded the first instance of the species being preyed upon by another massive shark.

The tourism board in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, created the “Selfie Control” tool to reduce conflict between visitors and animals like bison and bears.