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 ...

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 ...

Bowhead whales miraculously escaped extinction after the practice of whaling. The effects of that time still linger today, ...

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 ...