In the deep blue waters of the world’s oceans, some of the most intelligent and social creatures on Earth are engaging in ...

A “well known” sea creature with a “traumatic past” was spotted feeding off the coast of California. On June 29, Fingers, a ...

Researchers have documented orcas dropping prey and other marine life in front of humans, as if offering us food. The orcas' ...

The author recounts three separate experiences in the outdoors, ranging from an alarming discovery along the Clark Fork River ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines.

Toothed whales, such as sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins and porpoises, catch and eat their food using a variety of different forms of teeth. Baleen whales include the bowhead whale, the humpback ...

Bowhead whales, in particular, were prized for their blubber, oil, bones and filter feeding system from 1540 until the 20th century — a period lasting nearly 400 years.

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were hunted extensively for oil and baleen in the 1800s and early 1900s, ... Bowhead whales are baleen whales that filter-feed marine invertebrates, ...

For the Aaluk Crew, last Wednesday was cooking day. The night before, the whaling crew, captained by Bernadette and Quincy Adams, had landed the first bowhead whale of Utqiaġvik’s spring season.

The Aaluk Crew landed Utqiaġvik's first bowhead whale of the spring season last week. It was also 17-year-old striker Donald "Button" Adams' first catch.