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 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 ...

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 ...

The bowhead whale inhabits the frigid waters of the Arctic and Antarctic. These social giants can live up to 200 years, making them one of the longest-living animals on Earth. Bowhead whales ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Bowhead Whale and the Greenland Shark: Cold is key When it comes to finding the oldest living animals, there’s really only one place to look — the ocean. Floating in water takes immense weight ...

Animals all over the world have wide range of lifespans, varying from mere hours to millennia.The longevity depends on the ...

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 ...