Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to ... test of grit and the hunter's deep knowledge of his prey. The book's most poignant chapter is an account of three ...

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: ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...

The endangered bowhead whale was escaping from a pack of killer whales KHABAROVSK, September 25. /TASS/. An endangered bowhead whale that was stranded in shallow water near the Shantar Islands in ...

Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean also sync up their ... being in apparent synchrony with their vertically migrating prey,” Peter Heide-Jørgensen, one of the study authors, said in the release.