Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the northernmost American town, Utqiagvik, for ...

where an orca pulls down on the bowhead whale's lip to open the mouth, exposing the tongue to other killer whales. Jane George is a reporter with CBC Quebec. She's also done work for CBC Nunavut.

Bowhead whales are ... What’s a Baleen whale? Stafford: Oh yeah of course. There’s two types of whales. There’s whales with teeth in their mouth like killer whales or sperm whales.

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

Bowhead whales may carry their ... published on Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, illuminate the complexities underlying the whale’s population growth, which Dr. Lysiak ...

A type of baleen whale, the bowhead is a filter feeder, and feeds by swimming forward with its mouth wide open feasting on krill, copepods, mysids, amphipods, and many other crustaceans.

The bowhead whale, for example, often swims along with its mouth open on the surface of the ocean, allowing the water to flow through its baleen plates while trapping prey inside. This species has the ...

The mysterious bowhead whale was first caught off the coast of ... and other small crustaceans by swimming with their mouths wide open. Female bowheads tend to be larger than males, reaching ...

At first blush, bowhead whale diving behavior looks “pretty chaotic and unpredictable,” says Evgeny Podolskiy, an environmental scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan and lead author of the ...

Hupehsuchus’s relatively stiff body meant that it probably skimmed along near the surface with its mouth open, like a bowhead or right whale, rather than diving deep like a humpback. While ...

NOAA image of a group of Bowhead whale off the coast of Alaska. The migration routes of these whales may be shifting due to climate change, moving them into the path of ships. NOAA image of a ...