Credit: Brenda K. Rone, NOAA/AFSC/NMML, Permit No. 782-1719 & 14245
A newly published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other groups represents the first range-wide genetic analysis, using both modern-day tissue samples and historical artifacts of the bowhead whale, a species at home among the ice floes of the Arctic. This individual was photographed off Point Barrow, Alaska.