Arctic bowhead whales have lost some of their genetic diversity in the past 500 years, according to a new study to be published online Friday in the journal Evolution and Ecology.

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 ...

PROVINCETOWN (CBS) – For the first time in recorded history, a bowhead whale was spotted off the coast of Cape Cod. The whale, which inhabits the Arctic Ocean and far northern Atlantic and ...

Bowhead and right whales are among the biggest animals alive today, but a new look at how they evolved suggests that the two groups ballooned in size independently of each other, and probably for ...

Surprisingly, whaling by residents of northeastern colonies in North America began way back in the 1600s. The preferred “catches” in those days were right whales, humpbacks and bowhead whales. However ...

New research into baleen whales shows how they hit such low notes — as well as the limits to how deep in the water they can go to talk to each other. It suggests most of their communication ...

Secret to a longer life for humans may lie in the DNA of a whale that lives for 200 years. Researchers studied the unique genetic patterns of the bowhead whale ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the bowhead whale, an animal that has been known to live more than 200 years and resist many of the diseases associated with old age.