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 ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later write, “although these are extremely serious problems, but that such issues ...

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.

“It is alarming to contemplate the explosion of ship traffic on subsistence hunting and animal migration ... back to town for some hot soup. Bowhead whales are named for the massive bony ...

Many of the largest whales in the world are happy to simply eat lots of the smallest creatures in the ocean while smaller whales will actively hunt for sharks and larger ... Skim feeders, such as ...

American lobster found along the Atlantic coast of North America are known for their strong claws, which they use for hunting and defence ... Found in Arctic and sub-Arctic region, Bowhead whales are ...

Humpback comeback: whales are reclaiming their territory in the Salish Sea, bringing new life to waters once left empty by ...

This ability becomes even more impressive, given that sperm whales hunt deep-sea squid in complete darkness ... While most creatures on Earth have a defined life span, some whale species, like the ...

Here, we hope to find hunting Polar Bears, before heading to an area where underwater upwellings are known to attract up to a hundred Bowhead Whales. The cruise will also spend three days exploring ...