If nothing is done, extinction is a very real possibility. Researchers reveal troubling findings about whale lifespans: ...

The bowhead whale skeleton on display was collected off the coast of ... Pests can also colonise the dust and start to call it home, as some organisms will feed off the dust itself. Getting up ...

Bowhead whales are the ultimate Arctic socialites, often seen in groups (called pods) which can range from a few individuals to larger gatherings of up to 50 whales during migration or feeding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Britain started hunting bowhead whales around the North American colonies ... By the 20 th century, industrial-scale commercial whaling had begun to target whales on their feeding ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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 ...

Adrián Simancas compared the incident to Geppetto and Pinocchio’s escape from the mouth of a whale in the classic tale ...