On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

This image shows the upper jaw and skull of Maiabalaena nesbittae ... whose chemical composition is more like that of hair or fingernails than bone, does not preserve well. It is rarely found ...

A veterinary pathology technician stripped away the flesh around the whale's giant jaw bone. So many people had visited the whale, posed for photos alongside it, and now were working to send its ...