Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails at the mouth of the river. This 90-year alliance proves that Orcas ...

A new study shows that old whaling routes and Arctic ice still shape which bowhead whale populations recover today.

Populations of bowhead whales were able to hide from hunters under ice, a new study finds, saving them from extinction. But ...

Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected. Five-thousand-year-old whalebone harpoons and other artifacts along Brazil’s southern coast suggest ...

The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands. Around it are more bones, more tools, and a coastal story that reaches ...

Learn how Arctic sea ice created natural refuges for bowhead whales during centuries of industrial whaling, shaping which ...

Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of complex hunting strategies. They also engage ...