People have interacted with the whale, sometimes in ways that may be illegal, Mahoney said. Alaska Native people can legally take baleen and other products for subsistence or art use, but ...

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This beaked whale calf found stranded in shallow water along Emerald Isle, North Carolina, had a balloon blocking its ... with majors in journalism and art history, and a minor in geology.

Now, wildlife rehabilitators want to remind people of the dangers of balloon releases. Emerald Isle is where the beached whale washed up on the shore due to ingesting a balloon, and wildlife ...

The ninth dead whale to wash ashore on the New York-New Jersey coastline in recent months was reported Monday, officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center confirmed. A crowd gathered as the ...