ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Eskimo whale hunters are switching from 19th-century black powder to an explosive considered more humane. During a traditional bowhead whale hunt, a hunter in a wooden-ribbed boat ...

For years, scientists studying bowhead whales have relied on a simple idea: if a whale makes a long, square or U-shaped dive, ...

Tens of thousands of old logbooks from the 18th and 19th centuries reveal the scope and scale of how industrial whaling ...

Between the 17th to early 20th century, thousands of ships sailed the waters of the Arctic. They were hunting bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), chasing the gentle giants through the chilly seas.

A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the relative impacts of humans on nature. The time series of ancient fossils show ...

Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails at the mouth of the river. This 90-year alliance proves that Orcas ...