Under this quota, Greenland natives hunt minke, bowhead, fin, and humpback whales. Most minke whales and all other species hunted in West Greenland are shot from fishing boats with penthrite grenade ...

There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat. A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds ...

Bowhead whales, however, far exceed these expectations ... For a whale to survive to 150 years now, it would have endured decades of intense hunting, making such cases exceedingly rare.

Bowheads are expanding their foraging grounds The warming environment has also been affecting bowhead whales. Traditionally, bowheads travel south to spend their winters feeding on krill in the ...

Right whales, which are much more closely related to bowhead whales than any other species ... Whalers considered them the "right" whales to hunt due to their thick blubber, which caused them ...

Those loopholes are in fact allowing Japan to continue to hunt minke whales in the ... it would be that California gray whales and Alaska bowhead whales have increased in the face of ongoing ...

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: ...

Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate underneath sea ice. Bowhead whales have two blowholes, producing a distinctive V-shaped spray. Their ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live up to 200 years and have a range over vast distances. For the last 170 years, local Inuit have observed that ...