(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Years ago, I spent a week with the Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, during their fall bowhead whale hunt. They said this insistence by “outsiders” that they conform to some exotic savage ...

Three bowhead whales killed by Inupiat Eskimos in northernAlaska ... “Maybe what we’re looking at are thesurvivors, the males who escaped hunting all those years.” Age Determined From ...

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 ...

Inuit hunters in Iqaluit have killed their first bowhead whale in recent memory, less than 12 hours after embarking on their whaling expedition. More than 20 hunters set out in teams Monday morning on ...