There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Lake Iliamna in Alaska is North America s eighth-largest lake, but nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird. So when thousands of common murres were found ...

Mar. 7—Five people were seriously injured when a small plane crashed into a frozen lake in Southwest Alaska, state troopers said. Everyone in the plane survived the crash, which destroyed the Cessna ...

Alaska's Iliamna Lake harbor seals have been difficult to study because of their remoteness. They weren't even identified as harbor seals until 2013. Now, a new genetic study has found significant ...