Bowhead whales follow daily dive cycles and may coordinate across long distances. The calls show efficiency, possibly reflecting social ties.

By analyzing killer whale hearing ranges, he determined that the apex predators — which cannot detect sounds below 100 hertz ...

But this activity entails deafening sound: Even one low-frequency active sonar loudspeaker ... seismic surveys off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that threatened bowhead whales. In 2011, we filed ...

Bowhead whales are among the largest and ... kilometers (60 miles), although the researchers didn’t record the whales’ sounds ...

Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate underneath sea ice. Bowhead whales have two blowholes, producing a distinctive V-shaped spray. Their ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

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 ...

Synchronised diving isn’t something only humans can do. Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean also sync up their dives – and they’re able to do so while dozens of kilometres apart from each ...