Bowhead whales ... projections in the whale’s mouth — its filtration system keeping food in and water out — bloom from the gum and retain a molecular record of the body’s circulating ...

Researchers have unveiled the genetic blueprint for the bowhead whale, a genome chock full of clues behind this ... in one specific gene involved in the body's temperature regulation that may ...

a longtime bowhead expert from Utqiagvik, the nation's northernmost community. Records show the whales are also fatter than they were about 30 years ago, with full stomachs in fall and low disease ...

Joao Pedro de Magalhaes and his team at the University of Liverpool sequenced the genome of the bowhead whale, the longest living mammal on earth. The team wanted to understand why they live so ...

Humpback whales have — for the first time ever ... shows the gigantic marine mammals performing full and side "sand rolls" up to 164 feet (50 meters) below the ocean's surface to shed ...

Staying cool may seem like the last thing a bowhead whale needs to worry about. Water is very good at pulling heat out of a body, even at lukewarm temperatures. And bowhead whales lead ...

It is rare to see a complete, articulated whale skeleton, where the bones are put together the way they’d function in a living body. This is the only suspended articulated bowhead whale in North ...