Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research. Scientists who analyzed the seemingly random movement of bowhead whales in the ...

See All Key Ideas Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 years — longer than any other mammal. New research ...

The bowhead whale is a baleen whale, known for its massive head that makes up about one-third of its body length. Bowhead whales are large, reaching up to 60 feet (18.3 meters) in length and ...

Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate underneath sea ice. Bowhead whales have two blowholes, producing a distinctive V-shaped spray. Their ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

Twenty-five years ago, scientists working with Indigenous whale hunters in the Arctic showed that bowhead whales could live up to and even over 200 years. Their evidence included finding stone ...

These artifacts suggested that bowhead whales can and have lived at least 130 years. Such data suggest the bowhead whale – a species that lives in the Arctic – tends to live longer on average.

Tagging a bowhead whale. (Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research.