Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals with long lifespans tend to reproduce extremely slowly. Els Vermeulen Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well ...

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 no ...

A body that weighs as much as a small airplane should face steep odds against cancer. You may expect that from a creature packed with billions of cells, each with a chance to slip into danger as years ...

Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging humans become more resilient? By Carl Zimmer For more than 1,000 years, the ...

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—south of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Recent research on bowhead whale DNA repair has led to one ...

A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Ask 10 people what they think the longest-living mammal in ...

I think we all can agree that whales are cool. I happen to think that every living species has some element of cool about it, but the coolness of whales is pretty self-evident. Even given that general ...

Bowhead whales are among the most extraordinary mammals on Earth, celebrated not only for their unparalleled lifespan but also for their remarkable adaptations to survive in the planet’s harshest ...