It’s long been a puzzle. Cancer is, statistically speaking, a disease of aging. The longer something lives, the more likely ...

Bowhead whales once had a population of approximately 50,000 whales. However, due to commercial fishing during the 1800s, the population decreased to just about 3,000 individuals.

Bowhead whales are remarkable for their immense size, reaching up to 60 feet in length and weighing as much as 100 tons, and their extraordinary lifespan of up to 200 years or more. There truly is ...

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 ...

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

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

Meet the bowhead whale hunters of northern Alaska. Each spring, local hunters sit on the edge of the ice and wait for whales—a custom that’s at least 1,000 years old.

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

20,000 years ago, humans transformed stranded whale remains into weapons and tools. ... it distinguished closely related species like right whales and bowhead whales, impossible to differentiate by ...

29-foot humpback whale washes up dead on South Carolina island and necropsy reveals it likely died not long after having its skull crushed by boat, study says.