Butchering a bowhead whale on the ice requires all hands. Whaling crews and community members join together to do the job by hand. “It’s a lot of work,” says Martin Edwardsen, director of the Alaska ...

An international study led by Adelaide University has found bowhead whale populations are recovering only in stocks where large areas of hazardous sea ice conditions limited devastating hunting ...

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 ...

Learn how Arctic sea ice created natural refuges for bowhead whales during centuries of industrial whaling, shaping which populations are recovering today. Some bowhead whales are making a comeback.

Bowhead whales have the greatest life-span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to their slow metabolism and cancer-suppressing genes. They are far stockier and ...

The practice of whaling proved to be very profitable to those who participated in it. Due to poor management and a lack of oversight of whale populations, whaling was ultimately banned to save whales ...

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.

Bowhead whales have the greatest life-span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to their slow metabolism and cancer-suppressing genes. They are far stockier and ...