Right whales, closely related to bowheads, may exhibit similar longevity despite significant differences in population status and environmental pressures. Like their bowhead cousins, right whales ...

New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years—almost twice as long ...

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause ...

right, sperm, humpback, bowhead and gray whales. The results of this project have been used by both scientists and historians studying the status of whales throughout the world, and by others ...

‘The bowhead and the right whale both had oily areas that were super sticky and we felt like it was going to keep attracting dust and actually cause a potential issue for the specimens.’ ‘We made a ...

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) weigh on average 100,000 kg, about the size of Boeing 757. That’s roughly 17,000 times larger than the rougheyed rockfish and 250,000 times larger than the red sea ...

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 ...

New Zealand's population of southern right whales, known as tohorā in Māori, were hunted to near extinction by European whalers in the 1800s and then again by Soviet whalers in the 1900s. Now ...

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 migrate from their usual overwintering spot in the Bering Sea, north through the Bering Strait, to summer feeding grounds in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Recently, they’ve begun ...