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 ...

Image courtesy of NOAA Fisheries. Kevin Healy ... Age and growth estimates of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) via aspartic acid racemization. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 77(4), 571-580.

Now, they find themselves, and the whales they’re trying to save, back at square one. NOAA Fisheries announced Jan. 15 that it withdrew a proposal that would have expanded existing right whale ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, which monitors right whales closely through aerial surveys, said the adult female has already been struck once before by a boat.

NOAA also reminds the public that year-round, it is illegal to approach a humpback whale closer than 100 yards by any means by sea or drone, and closer than 1, 000 feet by aircraft. Advertisement ...

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: ...

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.

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.

Shea's project – "Bowhead Whale Migration Amid Changing Circulation Patterns in the Beaufort Gyre" – studied how a changing Arctic Ocean current coincided with whale migration patterns.

Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research. Scientists who analyzed the seemingly random movement of bowhead whales in the ...