Bowheads might be thriving as the sea ice in the Arctic declines. Past bowhead research suggests that the whales were in ...

Quincy Adams slices through bowhead whale meat to distribute to his family ... signaling the successful hunt. The garage door rolled up and steam flooded out into the yard. Inside was a picture ...

It’s a traditional way, in the Iñupiat community of around 900 people on the Northwest Alaska coast, for a whaling captain to announce a successful hunt of a bowhead whale. To Nashookpuk ...

He was documenting the bowhead whale-hunting rituals of the Inupiaq people. And to do this, he camped with the Native hunters for weeks on Arctic ice—where temperatures stay below freezing and ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

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.