This discovery sheds new light on the survival strategies of coastal populations during the Paleolithic era. An international ...

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill ...

Climate change poses a serious threat to the habitats of the bowhead whale, which may shrink by up to 75 percent by the end ...

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

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

The bowhead whale, for example, often swims along with its mouth open ... By filter feeding, they can consume huge amounts of this abundant food source quickly and efficiently, which has enabled them ...

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 ...

Belugas are culturally important and a critical source of food for these communities ... walrus, ice seals, belugas, bowhead whales, and Arctic seabirds in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas and ...

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 ...

removed an exemption that had previously allowed the Indigenous bowhead whale hunt. Overnight, the people of the North Slope lost an essential food source and a cultural practice dating back thousands ...

Blue whales weren’t just mythic protectors of medieval Icelanders, though—increasing evidence suggests that they were also an important food source. When the massive ... such as right and bowhead ...