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

A group of whales may be forced into the path of ships as a result of climate change, research has found. The population of bowhead whales migrates annually, swimming between the Bering Sea ...

Now, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of the 66-foot bowhead whale — a step that might finally yield some answers regarding its amazing longevity.

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.

WASHINGTON — Some whales are taking jazz riffs to new depths. For the first time, scientists have eavesdropped year-round on the songs of bowhead whales, the little-heard whales that roam the ...

Bowhead whales may carry their babies for as long as 23 months, although more research is needed to confirm the finding.

The blue, fin, bowhead, gray, humpback, right and sperm whales are the largest animals alive today. In fact, the blue whale is the largest-known creature ever on Earth, topping even the biggest of ...

Twenty-five years ago, scientists working with Indigenous whale hunters in the Arctic showed that bowhead whales could live up to and even over 200 years.

Bowhead whales were known to live up to 200 years, and a new study finds that southern right whales may live up to age 150 if they aren’t being hunted ...

Researchers have discovered about 80 genes in the bowhead whale that could one day help humans fight cancer and live longer ...

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory.