Bowhead whales follow daily dive cycles and may coordinate across long distances. The calls show efficiency, possibly ...

The mysterious bowhead whale was first caught off the coast of Alaska, where it was found to have an arrowhead lodged in its neck. Further research revealed it to be part of a 19th-century bomb ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale that lives year-round in the Arctic. Two populations are found in Canadian waters: the East Canada-Western Greenland (EC-WG) population, found in ...

There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat. A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate underneath sea ice. Bowhead whales have two blowholes, producing a distinctive V-shaped spray. Their ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live up to 200 years and have a range over vast distances. For the last 170 years, local Inuit have observed that ...

Scientists have estimated that the combined global populations of nine great whale species (blue, fin, gray, humpback, bowhead, sei, Bryde’s, minke, and right whales) sequester nearly 29,000 tonnes of ...