An orca species that hunted alongside humans for thousands of years is likely locally extinct. The finding is thanks to DNA analysis of a 100-year-old skeleton and knowledge from the Thaua people.

Pangnirtung hunters spotted a pod of whales early Friday and the team chose one to hunt. By the middle of the afternoon, the crew had caught the bowhead, which measured nearly 12 metres.

The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, is the only Native American tribe with a treaty that specifically mentions a right to hunt whales.

Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s largest mammals. But he doesn’t want to protect them. He wants to hunt them ...

Bowhead whales have a lengthy lifespan and could actually be the longest-living mammals on the planet. Ivory and diamond-tipped harpoon points from early 19th-century whale hunts have been found ...

Japan suspended its hunt for one season to retool its whaling program with measures such as cutting the number of whales and species targeted, but resumed hunting in the 2015-2016 season, capping ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—South Korea says it plans to hunt whales for research purposes for the first time. The Fisheries Ministry says officials conveyed the plan to the International Whaling ...

WATCH: A video, recorded on May 16, shows a pod of killer whales chasing a great white shark during an hour-long hunt on the Southern Cape of South Africa – Oct 6, 2022 ...