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.

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 ...

For nearly a week, families and eager marine life enthusiasts visited Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor after a minke whale was ...

Until now, belugas, narwhals, and bowhead whales thrived in the Arctic ... Government agencies, including NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada ...

got stuck and passed away," said Justin Viezbecke with NOAA. "The efforts today by our partners are going to help us figure out what happened." The minke whale was spotted near a Catalina Express ...

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: ...

Synchronised diving isn’t something only humans can do. Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean also sync up their dives – and they’re able to do so while dozens of kilometres apart from each ...