There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat. A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds ...

Bowhead whales, however, far exceed these expectations ... For a whale to survive to 150 years now, it would have endured decades of intense hunting, making such cases exceedingly rare.

A seminal 1999 study went so far as to analyze protein in the eyes of dozens of bowhead whales against harpoon tips with traces of blubber from the 1880s. Remarkably having survived a hunt from ...

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...