As crowds of onlookers trekked across Anchorage’s tidal mud flats to see the carcass of a 47-foot fin whale that washed ...

A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over a century have been discovered embedded in their bodies, continues to intrigue scientists. The mysterious bowhead ...

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 ...

Communication between beings in the animal kingdom is an area that experts have yet to fully understand. Scientists have ...

Beneath the Arctic sea ice, in the blanket of January's polar night, bowhead whales most prefer to sing. While the songs of humpback whales have long received the most attention, it turns out that ...

Members of the community are allowed to catch limited number of bowhead whales a year from stable populations. The first boats to harpoon the whale receive shares. The lead whaling crew divide the ...

Bowhead whales, in particular, were prized for their blubber, oil, bones and filter feeding system from 1540 until the 20th century — a period lasting nearly 400 years. A reminder of this ...

That’s got nothing on the bowhead whale skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum though, which is still dripping oil 160 years after it was collected. So, if you’re planning on touring ...

Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What's more, Inuit hunters have observed these whales breaking ice over half a metre thick - ice ...