Right whales can live over 130 years, but North Atlantic right whales average only 22 years due to human threats. The study underscores the importance of older whales in teaching survival skills and ...

Some whales may live to 150. This lifespan is almost double the 70-80 years they are conventionally believed to live.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

They are baleen whales and filter feeders that feed on zooplankton ... according to NOAA. If human activity doesn't change, the right whale population may not be large enough to continue to ...

meaning the oldest animals had to have survived some 40 years of threats from humans before that. “We didn’t know how to age baleen whales until 1955, which was the very end of industrial ...

Koala and Curlew are unrelated and possibly pregnant females that have become traveling companions, which is unusual for ...

We attribute the stark difference in longevity in North Atlantic right whales to human-caused mortality ... and can go many years between births. Baleen whales’ life history – particularly ...

We attribute the stark difference in longevity in North Atlantic right whales to human-caused mortality ... and can go many years between births. Baleen whales’ life history – particularly ...

Demand for whale watching trips to see the humpback whale in the Shannon Estuary remains high with more trips continuing ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...