One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

Bowhead whales feed by swimming with their mouths open, capturing food as they move through the dense swarms of plankton found in Arctic waters. Their diet is seasonal, with peak feeding occurring ...

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: ...

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 ...

These artifacts suggested that bowhead whales can and have lived at least 130 years. Such data suggest the bowhead whale – a species that lives in the Arctic – tends to live longer on average.