A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland to take a ...

Whale song. Stafford has used ... With only minutes of fuel left in the helicopter, his team captured a bowhead rising out of the water and blowing out water. He read a poem to commemorate the event.

The bowhead whale is the longest-living mammal on Earth with a life span of up to 200 years. Now, scientists have assembled its genome in the hope of learning some of its life-prolonging secrets.

The mysterious bowhead whale was first caught off the coast of Alaska, where it was found to have an arrowhead lodged in its neck. Further research revealed it to be part of a 19th-century bomb ...

A bowhead whale is the longest-living mammal on earth Denis Scott/Corbis The life of a bowhead whale is relatively quiet: it spends its days swimming in the frigid waters of the Artic, feasting on ...

George send Bada 48 frozen bowhead eyeballs, each about the size of a billiard ball, that he and other biologists had saved from whale hunts in Barrow, Gambell, Wainwright, Point Hope and Savoonga ...

She played back "amazing, wild sounds," Stafford recalls. "They weren’t bearded seals, they weren't narwhals, so they must be bowhead whales.". A typical bowhead song lasts for between 45 to 90 ...

While the whale study offers some hope, Magalhaes was quick to point out that it will be years before they know whether any of these genes will lead to new drugs or treatment for humans.

One study, published by the Telegraph, puts the age of the longest-living bowhead whale at 268 years. The paper also points out that it is difficult for zoologists to set an exact age.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) can live more than 200 years, making it the longest-lived mammal. Despite having 1,000 times more cells than humans, bowhead whales do not have a higher risk ...

A crew of five people will scan the cold waves for a whale’s water spout, and their 20-foot metal boat will race to jockey for position alongside the animal.