The whale was believed to be around 130 years old at the time of capture- potentially making it the oldest living mammal on the planet. Although bowhead whales remain largely mysterious ...

Instead, the longest-lived mammal is a smaller, cold-loving one; the bowhead whale. Living in the cold waters of the Arctic, the bowhead whale can grow to 20 metres long and weigh 100 tonnes ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

Each spring, men and women spend weeks on the tuvaq—the ice near the water—watching for bowhead whales migrating north from the Bering Sea to the Canadian Arctic. When one is spotted ...

The bowhead whale skeleton on display was collected off the coast ... But one of the main issues with marine mammal specimens , such as whales and dolphins, is a little stickier. Their bones contain a ...