Scientists have recorded an 'exceptionally rare' wild orca behavior known as 'tongue-nibbling' for the first time. The social ...

Prior to this instance, the “tongue-nibbling” had only been observed a handful of times in captivity. First seen in captive ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

Every spring Inupiaq hunters camp on the sea ice north of the Arctic Circle, in hopes of capturing a bowhead whale to share with their village. But as global warming accelerates ice melt, it ...

Bowhead whales once had a population of approximately 50,000 whales. However, due to commercial fishing during the 1800s, the population decreased to just about 3,000 individuals.

Bowhead whales are remarkable for their immense size, reaching up to 60 feet in length and weighing as much as 100 tons, and their extraordinary lifespan of up to 200 years or more. There truly is ...

15. Whales Used to Walk on Land (image credits: unsplash) It might sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but the ancestors of modern whales actually walked on four legs. Millions of ...

With the largest mouth of any living animal and a 17-foot skull, the bowhead whale is built for life in the frozen north. Weighing up to 100 tons and measuring around 50 to 60 feet long, it uses ...

The Bowhead baleen whale can live to the age of 200 years old and lives in family pods. Image via Depositphotos Imagine a mouth spanning up to 16 feet in length, 12 feet in height, and 8 feet in width ...

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 ...

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. On ...