Mystery among giants: these bowhead whales had nothing to do here... and yet

Boreal whales are discrete giants of the Arctic, living in cold and remote waters. Unlike belugas or whales, they generally evolve alone and remain far from shallow estuaries. However, in 2020, researchers at the University of Manitoba observed a unique phenomenon: a group of bowhead whales in the Churchill estuary in northern Canada. This discovery, documented in Polar Biology magazine, challenges the established knowledge about the distributio…