Bowhead whales can grow up to 62 feet and weigh up to 200,000 pounds. Christiansen, who is studying the effects between climate change and how much these mammals are eating, uses a drone to film ...

Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling. Scientists currently assume they live about 80 or 90 years, but that’s what we believed about bowhead and right whales ...

Nicholas A. Freymueller, Eline D. Lorenzen, Stuart C. Brown, Carsten Rahbek, Damien A. Fordham. 21st Century Sea Ice Loss Will Upend 11,700 Years of Stable Habitat for Bowhead Whales.

A melting glacier has pulled back the veil on a prehistoric whale graveyard in Russia. Scientists at Russia’s Arctic and ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated ...

Learn more about the nearly two decades worth of research showing how the toxins found in bowhead whale poop are a climate ...

Radiocarbon dating (which determines the age of organic materials) revealed that the oldest bones in the collection date back to around 19,000 to 20,000 years ago, “making it the oldest evidence ...

Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling. Scientists currently assume they live about 80 or 90 years, but that’s what we believed about bowhead and right whales ...

That’s got nothing on the bowhead whale skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum though, which is still dripping oil 160 years after it was collected.

Bowhead whales are so important for northern indigenous cultures that people evolved around using bowhead bodies for food, bowhead oil to light their lamps, and bowhead bones to build shelters ...

Scientists announced Tuesday they have discovered the earliest evidence of humans using whale bones, finding weapons made from the remains of the massive mammals dating back more than 20,000 years.