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Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats
Scientists aren’t sure how the juvenile female whale died. Also unclear: how long the bus-sized carcass will remain on tidal ...
Endangered fin whale measuring nearly 50 feet found dead near Anchorage, drawing curious onlookers to beach
An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted curious onlookers while ...
Dead 47-foot-long endangered fin whale washes up in Alaska, attracting hundreds of people
The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles ...
A 47-Foot-Long Whale Carcass Captivates an Alaskan City
Crowds in Anchorage have braved freezing temperatures and slippery ice to see the hulking carcass of a rare fin whale, which ...
Alaska Public Media8d
As hundreds flock to see dead Anchorage whale, scientists try to learn more about how it lived
Natalie Rouse opened a large freezer on Thursday stocked with bags of assorted whale parts. “So here are pieces of blubber,” she said. “And then we’ve got a little bit of baleen in here. And then I ...
Alaska Dispatch News11d
Biologists, onlookers continue examining a nearly 50-foot fin whale that washed ashore on Anchorage’s mud flats
The carcass was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, near the mouth of Fish Creek and just south of ...
Newser on MSN11d
Fin Whale Washes Ashore Near Anchorage, Biologists Investigate
An endangered fin whale washed ashore near Anchorage, Alaska, capturing the curiosity of locals while biologists investigate ...
Alaska Public Media5d
What can Anchorage’s beached whale teach us? | Talk of Alaska
A dead fin whale that washed up near Anchorage is bringing hundreds of spectators to the beach. What can biologists learn ...
Stranded fin whale becomes 'icy monument' outside Anchorage
A 47-foot fin whale that washed ashore near downtown Anchorage last weekend has become what one naturalist described as an ...
USA Today6d
Stranded fin whale becomes 'icy monument' outside Anchorage
A 47-foot fin whale that washed ashore near downtown Anchorage last weekend has become what one naturalist described as an ‘icy monument.” Emma Luck, an Alaska-based researcher and naturalist ...
The Independent11d
Crowd forms on Alaskan beach after giant whale carcass washes ashore
Barbara Mahoney, a NOAA biologist examining the whale, told the Anchorage Daily News the whale was likely 1 to 3 years old. Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, according to NOAA ...
Yahoo8d
Here's what we know -- and don't know -- about the fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats
Nov. 21—Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one of the most mysterious. Whale strandings are fairly routine in Alaska. But the latest ...