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 ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

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.

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: ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...