(Read how orcas work together to whip up a meal.) “We’ve known for a long time that orcas can hunt grey and bowhead whale calves by separating them from their mothers, but it’s interesting ...

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 ...

Quincy Adams slices through bowhead whale meat to distribute to his family ... signaling the successful hunt. The garage door rolled up and steam flooded out into the yard. Inside was a picture ...

But in recent years, the whale hunt has become more dangerous and more challenging because of climate change. What’s more, scientists warn that the future of the bowhead whale, which is thriving ...

At its peak, as many as 750 people lived in two settlements, hunting thousands of seals and hundreds of walruses every year. In a good year, they landed more than a dozen bowhead whales ...

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.

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 Inuvialuit and Nunavut people hunt 300 to 400 narwhals and hundreds of belugas. Six endangered bowhead whales have been killed since 1996 with permits from the Canadian Fisheries Department.

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 ...

This whale must have read the script and decided to play the lead in The Great Escape: Arctic Edition. Craig shared this clip of his thrilling bowhead whale hunt. ''We chased a whale for over a half ...

A scientist analyzing images of the carcasses said the killer whales appear to have torn at the bowhead tongues—a hunting behavior that has previously been observed among orcas. The four ...