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 ...

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 ...

A beluga whale has been spotted in France's River Seine ... Experts are puzzled as to why the whale has strayed so far south from its natural habitat. "The challenge now will be to help feed ...

The Beluga — billed by Airbus as the world’s biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported — looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.

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.

Evoking atmosphere and a sense of place - with the habitat as a major element of the picture – to convey how an animal is an integral part of its environment. Mark Williams (UK/Canada) observes from ...