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

Unlike most mammals, the bowhead whale can live well past the age of 200, yet we know very little about how it lives so long without experiencing many of the lethal diseases that humans often go ...

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 ...

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.

Likewise, there has to be some genetic basis as to why bowhead whales live so long and appear protected from diseases." With a 1,000 times more cells than a human, the whale should have a much ...

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 ...

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago.

Killer whale trained to mimic human sounds 02:37. Scientists think only male bowheads sing and that they are singing for sex, improvising to try to attract females with the best rendition of songs.