A bowhead whale harvested by Inuit whalers in Alaska in 2007 carried a remarkable secret. Embedded in its body were fragments of a harpoon dating back to the late 1800s, a discovery that led ...

Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What's more, Inuit hunters have observed these whales breaking ice over half a meter thick—ice strong ...

Bowhead whales have the greatest life-span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to their slow metabolism and cancer-suppressing genes. They are far stockier and ...

They paddled their canoe for days through the haze of forest fire smoke. They holed up at an Inuit whaling camp in a storm. And they paddled 3- to 4-foot waves on the Arctic Ocean. After 60 days on ...