A dramatic loss in Arctic Ocean ice appears to be aiding the attacks, reducing the frozen cover that can provide bowhead whales with protection from killer whales, according to a statement from ...

Bowhead whales are insulated against frigid Arctic waters with an exceptionally thick layer of blubber. Bowhead whales are slow swimmers, with a top speed of about 6mph, and they don’t tend to ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean warming is causing higher concentrations of algal toxins in Arctic food webs, ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

A new study links toxic algae found in bowhead whales to ocean warming - a growing threat to Arctic food webs.

A bowhead whale and calf are seen swimming in open water in the Arctic Ocean in this undated photo. Bowhead whales, with their thick bow-shaped skulls that can break ice, have evolved to thrive in ...

Two bowhead whales surface in a small lead off Utqiaġvik in April 2012. (Photo by Kate Stafford) With ice declining, bowhead whales of the Pacific Arctic are staying longer in the waters up north.

The bowhead whale lives exclusively in the Arctic. The whale has some of the thickest blubber of any species of whale, allowing them to regulate their body temperature even in ocean water that is ...

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and found that algal toxin concentrations changed with ocean temperatures, the ...

Miles Davis and Billie Holiday may have some musical company in the ocean. Arctic bowhead whales might not belong on a list of jazz greats for most people, but a new study from a team at the Univer… ...

An analysis of 184 different songs, recorded between 2010 and 2014, finds that bowhead whales swimming in the Arctic Ocean east of Greenland have a surprisingly diverse repertoire of vocalizations.

Through its Ocean Giants Program and Arctic Beringia Program ... Feb. 22, 2023 — As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are staying north of the Bering Strait more frequently, ...