Bowhead whales have the greatest life span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to ...
For years, scientists studying bowhead whales have relied on a simple idea: if a whale makes a long, square or U-shaped dive, it's feeding time. A new study demonstrates that assumption may not hold ...
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 ...
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 ...
Section I: Basic Biology 1. Higher-Level Phylogeny of Baleen Whales 2. Fossil Record 3. The Stocks of Bowheads 4. Distribution and behavior of Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi bowhead whales as inferred by ...
The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative. Scientific measurements using multiple methods have ...
A bowhead whale and calf swim in an open-water lead in the Arctic Ocean in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) A long-term study of bowhead ...
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 ...
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