A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds of food. The ninit—community shares of meat and blubber—are apportioned equitably to ensure that everyone benefits from a successful hunt.

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

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.

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: ...

Bowhead whales migrate from their usual overwintering spot in the Bering Sea, north through the Bering Strait, to summer feeding grounds in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Recently, they’ve begun ...

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.

As a result, bowhead whales could be using the estuary as a refuge to escape predation. "They could have also been scouting for food," Coppolaro explains. Due to tidal changes, the estuary ...