The organ in the bowhead whale mouth, Werth and his colleagues found, has the same distinctively spongy tissue, along with copious vessels supplying it with blood.

There are few photographs of this whale that are well-lit enough to make out that unique mouth, built for dredging through the Arctic ... As far as the bowhead whales are concerned, it’s a rock ...

Stafford: Well, bowhead whales of course, because they live in the Arctic, they have the thickest blubber of any whale. They have the longest baleen. They can break ice up to a foot and a half thick.

Bowhead whales once had a population of approximately 50,000 whales. However, due to commercial fishing during the 1800s, the population decreased to just about 3,000 individuals.

A SPECIES of whale believed to be so old and mysterious that harpoon arrows from 100 years ago were found to be embedded in them. A giant bowhead whale was captured off the coast of Alaska with a h… ...

Bowhead whales may carry their babies for as long as 23 months, although more research is needed to confirm the finding. By Miriam Fauzia For animals that humans almost drove into extinction ...

Willoughby and her colleagues were also the first to assemble direct proof of killer whale predation on Alaska bowheads – a dead bowhead calf photographed in 2015 with bite marks on its flipper ...

The bowhead whale, for example, often swims along with its mouth open on the surface of the ocean, allowing the water to flow through its baleen plates while trapping prey inside. This species has the ...

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The blue, fin, bowhead, gray, humpback, right and sperm whales are the largest animals alive today. In fact, the blue whale is the largest-known creature ever on Earth, topping even the biggest of ...

The mysterious bowhead whale was first caught off the coast of Alaska, where it was found to have an arrowhead lodged in its neck. Further research revealed it to be part of a 19th-century bomb ...

Bowhead whales are large, baleen whales that can grow up to around 60 feet. They are one of the most long-lived species in the world, with some living up to 200 or older.