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

The bowhead whale skeleton on display was collected off the coast of ... In life this substance is critical for the animals to maintain buoyancy in water and was the reason why so many were ...

The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale that lives ... "There's something special about when these animals come through—it's big news in town, shared with everyone. It's part of the wonder ...

The current quotas are 336 bowhead and 744 gray whales over the six-year period ... In October 1997, several whale and animal protection organizations filed suit (Metcalf v. Daley, 214 F.3d 1135 (9th ...

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 ...

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 right whales, before that analysis, researchers thought bowhead ... that other whale species also have potentially ...

In effect, they were using them as a kind of bowhead whale spa. “We’re able to actually see the full animal. We’re able to see how that whale is engaging with other animals, how it’s ...