In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers found that the key to the whales’ lifespans is a ...

The bowhead whale is the world’s longest-living mammal, sometimes making it to a staggering 200 years old. How does it do it?

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

The expedition also revealed a new species of armoured and iridescent scale worms, called Eulagisca sp. nov., as well as ...

Say, for instance, a whale’s suspected cause of death is a boat strike. Researchers will look out for bruises and cuts during ...

Expanding offshore oil drilling is bad for a lot of reasons, but it’s especially bad for the Rice’s whales. There are fewer ...

As humans age, we become more vulnerable to cancer and other diseases. Bowhead whales, however, can live for up to 200 years ...

How bowhead whales live so long. Researchers have uncovered a protein that enhances DNA repair and might explai ...

A cold-activated protein that mends damaged DNA could play a part in keeping the bowhead whale in tip-top shape.

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

Among our favorites is Brussels Sprouts, named as such because the callosity pattern on the 4-year-old male’s head is ...

There are around 380 North Atlantic right whales in existence. Scientists identify them by catalog numbers but some also have ...