Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.

A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished ...

Bowheads might be thriving as the sea ice in the Arctic declines. Past bowhead research suggests that the whales were in ...

Until now, belugas, narwhals, and bowhead whales thrived in the Arctic ... Whales like belugas and bowheads are not just a food source but also central to Indigenous culture and economy.

Bowhead whales may carry their babies ... These teeth-like projections in the whale’s mouth — its filtration system keeping food in and water out — bloom from the gum and retain a molecular ...

Many tribes rely on bowhead harvest for food and resources, and may be left without if parts of the whales' range are abandoned. Exactly how the whales will adapt to the changing climate in the ...

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

It was surreal to us.” In Point Hope, or Tikigaq in Iñupiaq, life has revolved around bowhead whales for thousands of years. The animal provided residents with food, oil for fuel and bones for ...

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory. By Joanna Thompson ...

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: ...