towheaded

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But that event gave strange new life-forms the opportunity to evolve, including a small sea-dwelling reptile that filter-fed much as bowheads and other baleen whales do today.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

In Alaska's vast North Slope Borough, most of the 9,700 residents are Iñupiat, and while bowheads are not an endangered whale species, they do face environmental and human-caused threats to their ongoing recovery.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2021

Whaling ships hunted them by patrolling the ice-edge where the bowheads fed, which meant their logbooks were filled with observations about ice.

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2019

They found that bowheads - the bigger, more blubbery cousins of the better known humpbacks - are more prolific and downright jazzier than other whales.

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2018

A school of bowheads was approaching an open lane to the north and the Arctic.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry