“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

6 For more than half a century, Eskimos¹ of North Alaska² have made baskets of baleen, the keratinous substance from the mouths of plankton-eating whales. Never as widespread ... and Point Lay, Alaska ...

Still, NOAA biologists collected urine and blood samples, heart tissues, baleen samples and ... allowed to take any part of the whale unless they were an Alaska Native doing it for subsistence ...

Larry McNeil In snowy Alaska, if you spend hours in the brilliant ... the pair shown here was made from whale baleen. This style of eyewear can even improve vision, as Ann Fienup-Riordan ...

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and ...

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders ...

Baleen whales carry a huge amount of nutrients from ... We also had about 4,000 tons of biomass coming from Alaska to Hawaii every year." That's comparable to about 20 million Big Macs.

Find out how baleen whale feces and urine contribute to the ocean‘s health. The study suggests that these marine mammals are even better at transferring chemical elements from one part of the ...

Whales sing more when they have a proximity to food, according to a new study by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Photo from Chinh le Duc, UnSplash Baleen whales sing more when there ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes—like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica)—putting on ... They need this energy for an amazing journey: As Costa points out, baleen whales migrate ...