Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 ...

Whales have surprised scientists and spectators alike with bold appearances. This list of stories includes a killer whale teaching session off British Columbia, a fin whale in Massachusetts performing ...

Scientists pinpoint when humans started to use tools made from whale bone - Bones originated from various whale species, ...

The first-ever direct flights from the United States to Greenland will give tourists easier access to the island’s history, ...

Polar bears are fearsome predators, but thankfully, most of us will never have to worry about encountering them in the wild.

This is the moment an Inuk man, a member of the Inuit people, found a beluga whale stuck in shallow water in Quebec, Canada on November 27. The beluga was hunting when it accidentally entered the ...

The Indigenous community has observed and pursued narwhals for generations in Greenland. They believe it’s time that scientists and governments paid more attention. Sheets, or pans, of sea ice ...

In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the Iñupiat rely on whaling and subsistence hunting for the bulk of their ... Borough Mayor Eben Hopson formed the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. In the early years ...

For 5,000 years, the Inuit communities of the Arctic ... vessels create clutters the frequencies whales, fish, and other creatures use to communicate, hunt, mate, and navigate the inky depths.

Two Igloolik Inuit elders told researchers decades ... "I don’t think a killer whale would ever hunt a human," Hoyt said. "They are fussy eaters, really conservative in terms of whatever they ...