Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

The bowhead whale is a baleen whale, known for its massive head ... and Chukchi Seas. The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission plays a vital role in co-managing subsistence hunting practices with ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have ... The “fight” club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan. 31 in Marine Mammal Science.

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

FEEDING: Bowhead whales are baleen whales, meaning they use a comb-like strainer made of hundreds of long, narrow baleen plates attached to their upper jaws to filter large amounts of plankton.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Maritime Administration for failing to consider shipping traffic’s harm to highly endangered ...