A WHITE beluga, long suspected of being a Russian spy, may have been involved in a secret Kremlin mission in the Arctic, a documentary has claimed. The whale, nicknamed Hvaldimir – a blend ...

Commercial whaling, present challenges and future threats shape genetics and the potential for adaptation in the bowhead ...

Pioneering research to protect and conserve Arctic whale populations is to begin under a new five-year collaboration between ...

Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What's more, Inuit hunters ...

Encounter whales (and whale sharks, too) in quiet, relaxing destinations like the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the ice caps and Baja California Sur.

Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic whales? That was the question we set out to answer for both bowhead whales and narwhals. Our goal was to understand how the historic ...

Climate change is altering species distributions across the world, and this is particularly marked in the Arctic where ...

The living ranges of the narwhal whales overlap with those of the bowheads in the Arctic. Narwhals were central to northern European mythology about the legendary unicorn due to their distinctive ...

Bowhead and narwhal whales, emblematic of Arctic resilience, faced severe exploitation due to commercial whaling, which has ...