Bowhead whales may carry their babies for as long as 23 months, although more research is needed to confirm the finding. By Miriam Fauzia For animals that humans almost drove into extinction ...

Some plucky animals, like the bowhead whale, have adapted to overcome this, becoming one of the longest living species on Earth, but it seems the evolutionary quirk that enabled them to do this ...

Twenty-five years ago, scientists working with Indigenous whale hunters in the Arctic showed that bowhead whales could ... Baleen whales’ life history – particularly the age when females ...

Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was ... These artifacts suggested that bowhead whales can and have lived at least 130 years.

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

Among mammals, whales are the longevity champs. Members of several species have lived past age 100, and one bowhead whale reached its 211th ... the same statistical approach companies use to set life ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Stafford: Well, as you said in the introduction, they are the whale that spends their entire life in the ... hydrophone to get real time short term recordings of bowhead whales.

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies ... These artifacts suggested that bowhead whales can and have lived at least 130 years.