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.

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...

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 ...

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: ...

Mother polar bears emerge from their hillside dens and lead their cubs down to the sea ice to hunt, while a young ... as well as the biggest: bowhead whales. These ancient and long-lived whales ...

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 ...

The Bowhead Whale. Lawrence, Kansas: The Society for Marine Mammology ... Ancient Land: Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. McCartney, Allen ed., ...