Above, Flora Aiken gives a blessing to the first bowhead whale of the spring season ... The cure for feeling cold while out on the ice is to eat quok, the Inupiat word for frozen raw meat and ...

The harpoon was traced back to the 1900s, and after investigation, scientists estimated that the whale itself was around 115 years old, if not older. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus ...

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 ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live ... He needed to learn more about what the caribou actually eat. Because they range over several hundred ...