Bowhead whales can grow up to 62 feet and weigh up to 200,000 pounds. Christiansen, who is studying the effects between climate change and how much these mammals are eating, uses a drone to film ...

The scientists also predicted that the Sea of Okhotsk, home to one of only four bowhead populations, may lose all habitat suitable for the whales by 2060. By 2100, any remaining suitable habitat ...

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75%.

Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling. Scientists currently assume they live about 80 or 90 years, but that’s what we believed about bowhead and right whales ...

Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling. Scientists currently assume they live about 80 or 90 years, but that’s what we believed about bowhead and right whales ...

With his 168-page thesis, he has condensed three decades of accompanying Inupiat hunters while they harvested whales and has refined his experiences into insights on bowhead biology.

"Since 2000, there has been an increase in bowhead whale sightings in the estuary," Coppolaro explains. However, increased vessel traffic could impact the whales' presence in the future.

Oceanographer Kate Stafford says she and her colleagues from Germany and Norway were hoping to find evidence of a few dozen Spitsbergen bowhead whales. What they ended up finding blew them away.

As for the bowhead whales, their population north and west of Alaska is now at more than 15,000. That’s a rebound from the 1,000 animals that remained when the last Yankee whaler harvested one ...