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For the first time in recorded history, a group of bowhead whales has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia, far ...
So I think it has completely revolutionized our ability to understand bowhead whale behaviour,” says Fortune. Camera trap captures the world’s first glimpse of a baby giant armadillo Giant ...
In the remote Arctic, drones quietly follow a hard-to-study bowhead whale population and answer ... cameras record the first-ever images of a baby giant armadillo in Brazil who became a social ...
A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over a century have been discovered embedded in their bodies, continues to intrigue scientists. The mysterious bowhead ...
As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...
Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...
Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) weigh on average 100,000 kg, about the size of Boeing 757. That’s roughly 17,000 times larger than the rougheyed rockfish and 250,000 times larger than the red sea ...
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.