We’ll hear about 40 seconds of it. (Bowhead whale sounds) Miller: Do you have a sense for, first of all, just how far away the whales might be from the underwater microphones, the hydrophones?

The Arctic’s bowhead whales can live for over 200 years. Imagine what they might hear in that time: screw propellers were ...

"We now know that Cumberland Sound serves as a habitat for feeding and molting," said Fortune. "Very little is known about molting in any of the large whale species." Bowhead whales return to ...

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to ...

it also sounds alarms about the changing nature of our oceans. Bowhead whales depend on sea ice for feeding and protection, and their presence in warmer waters could be a sign of habitat disruption.

Bowhead whales, in turns out, are far more versatile and would appear to improvise new songs all the time. "If humpback whale song is like classical music, bowheads are jazz," Stafford said in a ...

A paper that he co-authored in 2015 reported that from 1989 to 2011, subadult bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea showed a 2.7 percent increase in body size per decade. While that may not sound ...

Twenty-five years ago, scientists working with Indigenous whale hunters in the Arctic showed that bowhead whales could live up to and even over 200 years. Their evidence included finding stone ...