Rising toxins found in bowhead whales harvested for subsistence use by Alaska Natives on the North Slope show that ocean ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland to take a ...

A new study links toxic algae found in bowhead whales to ocean warming - a growing threat to Arctic food webs.

Researchers previously thought bowhead whales in the U.S. Arctic experienced limited predation from killer whales, scientist Amy Willoughby with NOAA and the University of Washington, who led the ...

“And that was kind of the ‘Aha!’ moment where we realized that killer whales might be predating on bowhead whales.” Researchers began examining bowhead whale carcasses found from 2009 to 2018.

A bowhead whale spotted by observers on Oct. 29, 2019. Normally, thousands of the whales would be moving along Alaska's northern coast in October, but that hasn't happened this year.

A bowhead whale skull, seen on Aug. 6, ... but in 2016 NOAA Fisheries identified 14 “distinct population segments” and determined that Endangered Species Act protections were no longer ...

The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas each year is a conservation success story, with today's population nearing—if not exceeding—pre-commercial ...

Unlike most mammals, the bowhead whale can live well past the age of 200, yet we know very little about how it lives so long without experiencing many of the lethal diseases that humans often go ...

Bowhead whales may carry their babies for as long as 23 months, although more research is needed to confirm the finding. By Miriam Fauzia For animals that humans almost drove into extinction ...

Qaiyaan Harcharek was hunting for bowhead whales in the spring of 2007 when he first saw a humpback whale in the waters off Utqiaġvik, his hometown and the nation’s farthest north community. He ...