YUYAN: The bowhead whale population has literally tripled in the last 40 years. It's an amazing, amazing feat. And now Inupiaq are known as the poster children for Indigenous traditional knowledge.

Entangled juvenile humpback whale rescued by conservation officials and local anglers off the coast of New Zealand, photos show. ‘Precious species’ ...

20,000 years ago, humans transformed stranded whale remains into weapons and tools. ... it distinguished closely related species like right whales and bowhead whales, impossible to differentiate by ...

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

Observers count bowhead whales passing by Utqiagvik, part of a census that takes place every 10 years. John Citta / North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management It is part of an effort to ...

Looking closely at the lens of bowhead whale eyes allowed one biologist to date four whales to be over 100 years old; the oldest was 211. The lenses are formed one layer at a time, with the key ...

Trending News: Bowhead whales, denizens of the Arctic Ocean, are revealed as exceptionally long-lived mammals, potentially reaching ages exceeding 200 years. Genetic ...

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

Bowhead whales are capable of breaking through sea ice at least seven inches thick with their large skulls and powerful bodies," writes the World Wild Life site. The Silent Wisdom of the Deep We'll ...

Bowhead whales once had a population of approximately 50,000 whales. However, due to commercial fishing during the 1800s, the population decreased to just about 3,000 individuals.