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 ...

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 ...

Bowhead whales have the greatest life-span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to their slow metabolism and cancer-suppressing genes. They are far stockier and ...

Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale. The findings, published in the journal Nature, ...

Bowhead whales appear to breed under the sea ice northwest of Spitsbergen while using the open water in the eastern Fram Strait as a migration area. Bowhead whales likely reproduce beneath the sea ice ...

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The practice of whaling proved to be very profitable to those who participated in it. Due to poor management and a lack of oversight of whale populations, whaling was ultimately banned to save whales ...

For the second consecutive year, the Quaqtaq Uumajulirijiit — or local hunters and trappers association — will not harvest a bowhead whale, because it says it doesn't have the money or time to ...