LIFE CYCLE: The lifespan of bowheads is not known for certain, but it is believed to be at least 70 years and likely more than 200, making them the longest-lived mammals on the planet. FEEDING: ...

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 ...

What is the true longest-living life-form? Tortoises ... Arctic waters is the longest-living mammal on Earth: the bowhead whale, which can survive for over 200 years. Next, is the oldest ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

Twenty-five years ago, scientists working with Indigenous whale hunters in the Arctic showed that bowhead whales could ...

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...

Hess evokes the spare pleasures of Inupiat life, the simple fellowship and ... Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...

Synchronised diving isn’t something only humans can do. Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean also sync up their dives – and they’re able to do so while dozens of kilometres apart from each ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live ... It allows you to accompany the animal on its journey through life,” says Rogers. The caribou cam offered ...