Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus ... Longevity has been estimated at over 200 years by measuring changes in the eye lens crystallins in harvested animals. Their exceptional longevity was confirmed ...

Animals have limited lifespans, but some species defy time with extraordinary longevity. From red sea urchins to slow-moving ...

Bowhead Whale: 200 years Humans (2020s): 72 years Elephant: 56 years Humans (1950): 47 years Brandt’s Bat: 41 years Western Gorilla: 35 years Brown Bear: 25 years Tiger: 14 years Hedgehog ...

These ancient creatures, often referred to as 'living fossils,' offer a rare glimpse into Earth’s evolutionary past ...

a blind shelters members of an Inupiat whaling crew as they watch for a passing bowhead whale by the light of the midnight sun. The Inupiat have hunted whales here for at least 1,000 years ...

Hess paid his dues this way for several years beginning in the early 1980s ... Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live up to 200 years and have a range over vast distances. For the last 170 years, local Inuit have observed that ...

The bowhead whale skeleton on display was collected off the coast of Greenland 160 years ago, and has been at the Natural History Museum since 1934. There was a half inch-thick layer of dust over the ...