Scientists had never seen how killer whales work cooperatively to hunt a juvenile bowhead whale, which is three times an orca's size. 1:03. Orcas Take Down Whale in Coordinated Attack.

The bowhead whale hunt is an essential cultural and subsistence tradition for the Inupiat of Alaska's North Slope. It dates back at least 1,500 years, and annual harvests can supply families with ...

Alaska Natives have hunted bowhead whales for hundreds of years. Bowheads can stretch more than 50 feet and weigh tens of thousands of pounds. In October 2007, we caught up with a whaling crew in ...

ANCHORAGE — Villages along Alaska’s western coastline where residents hunt bowhead whales would see no reduction in their subsistence-hunt quota under a plan preferred by a federal agency. The ...

But the interpretation that Saqqaq peoples were actively hunting bowhead whales is a bit fishy, she thinks. For one thing, hunting a bowhead whale in this fashion would have been incredibly dangerous.

We have replaced it with a video of another whale hunt, this time from Barrow. Few people on Earth get a close-up view of a bowhead whale hunt. And given Alaska's brutal cold and the dangers ...

Whale hunting could expand in selected areas with Native American tribe’s latest victory. ... enabling them to harvest bowhead whales, despite the species’ endangered status.

The Aaluk Crew landed Utqiaġvik's first bowhead whale of the spring season last week. It was also 17-year-old striker Donald "Button" Adams' first catch.

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

Bowhead whales, in particular, were prized for their blubber, oil, bones and filter feeding system from 1540 until the 20th century—a period lasting nearly 400 years.