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: ...

Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales ... yet North Atlantic right whales’ lives are cut short due to threats they face in Canadian and U.S ...

Their immense heads measure nearly one-third of their body length, which can total 65 feet in length. Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate ...

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 ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...

More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face predatory attacks from killer ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face predatory attacks from killer ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

Tagging a bowhead whale. (Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research.

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 ...