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

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

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

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines.

Bowhead whale. The only large whale found exclusively in the Arctic. ... Its claim to fame is its long life – one individual, killed by whalers, was estimated to be 211 years old. 8.

Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 years — longer than ... One bowhead was estimated to be 211 years old.

Bowhead whales were known to live up to 200 years, ... Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations.

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances.Some of these whales ...

Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling. Scientists currently assume they live about 80 or 90 years, but that’s what we believed about bowhead and right whales ...