Joao Pedro de Magalhaes and his team at the University of Liverpool sequenced the genome of the bowhead whale, the longest living mammal on earth. The team wanted to understand why they live so ...

Three bowhead whales killed by Inupiat Eskimos in northernAlaska were estimated to be 135 to 172 years, while a fourthbowhead was believed to be 211 years old, researchers concluded.

Just how do we know that bowhead whales live to such a ripe old age? Studying the changes to the amino acids in the eyes of captured whales give scientists some clues. But the most conclusive ...

The whale was believed to be around 130 years old at the time of capture- potentially making it the oldest living mammal on the planet. Although bowhead whales remain largely mysterious ...

As biologist Craig George was helping Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a bowhead whale, he pressed his knife into an old scar in the whale's skin. The knife made a ...

Sometimes the most obvious way to determine how old these whales are is the most ... How did Arctic researchers date the age of massive bowhead whales? They measured chemical changes in the ...

Bowhead whales, denizens of the Arctic Ocean, are revealed as exceptionally long-lived mammals, potentially reaching ages exceeding 200 years. Genetic ...

Eskimo hunters killed a bowhead whale off the coast of Alaska last month and began to chain-saw their way into its blubber. They stopped when the saw hit the tip of an old harpoon lodged deep ...

Nature holds secrets to long life. Certain animals outlive humans by centuries. Rougheye rockfish lives over 200 years.

Like bowhead and right whales ... Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations. Though many whale populations are recovering in ...