It takes bowhead whales about 20 years to reach sexual maturity.

No one had seen a bowhead whale in years.

The following habitats are found across the Bowhead whale distribution range.

Compared to bowhead whales, we clearly have a long way to go in the pursuit of a longer life.

It is the only village in the region where people hunt the bowhead whale.

In these summer days, however, the animal that dominates the view here is the bowhead whale.

The area is the habitat of polar bears and bowhead whales.

The bowhead whale is not found in the North Pacific.

They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale.

Bowhead whales migrate to the northern part of the basin each summer.

Some whales, such as the bowhead whale, have longer baleen than others.

The bomb lance is pretty clear proof that this particular bowhead whale lived longer than any human on record.

But for bowhead whales, longevity has turned out to have a severe downside.

They pushed the bowhead whales to the edge of extinction for the oil in their tissue.

Arctic bowhead whales have lost a significant portion of their genetic diversity in the past 500 years.

They still hunt bowhead whales, their centuries-old source of subsistence.

Bowhead whales are the fattest animals in the world.

The bowhead whale is second only in size to the mighty blue whale.

The bowhead whale inhabits cold Arctic waters and so needs the best insulation.

Bowhead whales served many purposes for the Thule people.

Between 1855 and 1867, American whaleships frequented the bay hunting bowhead whales.

The scenes of walrus, bowhead whale, and caribou hunting are all real.

Bowhead whales completely lack callosities, the easiest way to distinguish the two species.

However, they prefer the bowhead whale, and occasionally the gray whale.

From 1611, Spitsbergen became a base for whaling, where they targeted the bowhead whale.

ARKive - images and movies of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae in suborder Mysticeti.

He also obtained the skeletons from a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) and a young Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus), which are still on display in the museum.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an Arctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length.

Indeed, the age of another bowhead examined by scientists in 1999 was put at 211 years.

Bowhead whales were hunted in the sea between 1888 and 1914.

Compared to bowhead whales, we clearly have a long way to go in the pursuit of a longer life.

It is the only village in the region where people hunt the bowhead whale.

The bowhead has the largest mouth of any animal.

The following habitats are found across the Bowhead whale distribution range.

His wife died and his daughter is a total bowhead. "

The area is the habitat of polar bears and bowhead whales.

But for bowhead whales, longevity has turned out to have a severe downside.

They pushed the bowhead whales to the edge of extinction for the oil in their tissue.

Commercial bowhead hunting in the area began in 1889.

The bomb lance is pretty clear proof that this particular bowhead whale lived longer than any human on record.

Gray, bowhead, and beluga whales migrate along the west coast.

They still hunt bowhead whales, their centuries-old source of subsistence.

Arctic bowhead whales have lost a significant portion of their genetic diversity in the past 500 years.

The bowhead is a slow swimmer and usually travels alone or in small herds of up to six.

Bowhead whales are the fattest animals in the world.

It was first described in 1758 by Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales (and the bowhead) as a single species.

One girl stared at the 43-foot-long bowhead whale and shouted, "Hey, man, that's heavy!"

From Bowhead, Jack looked out to sea: no squadron.

The bowhead was an early whaling target.

Similar to walrus, bowhead whales are captured by harpoon.

Between 1857 and 1860, American whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the bay.

Research on the closely related bowhead whale suggests this lifespan is not uncommon and may even be exceeded.

They left Spitsbergen in September, with a total catch of eighteen bowhead whales.

In the early whaling days, they were all thought to be a single species, Balaena mysticetus.

ARKive - images and movies of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)

Whales (Bowhead Whale) (Balaena mysticetus about 200 years)

Balaena mysticetus, Bowhead Whale (Late Pleistocene to Modern)

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae in suborder Mysticeti.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an Arctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length.

He also obtained the skeletons from a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) and a young Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus), which are still on display in the museum.

In fact, there was indeed a difference between the two - Melville's "Greenland whale", or "Greenland right whale", was in fact the modern-day bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus.

It was once thought that this species was also the main target (or at least represented half the catch) in southern Labrador, but it now appears as though bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were the primary targets.

In far northern waters narwhal Monodon monoceros, beluga Delphinapterus leucas and Greenland right (bowhead) whale Balaena mysticetus have a circumpolar distribution along the ice edge and in loose pack.

Seemingly identical to its cousins in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Oceans, they were all thought to be a single species, collectively known as the "right whale", and given the binomial name Balaena mysticetus.

As recently as 1998, Rice, in his comprehensive and otherwise authoritative classification, Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution, listed just two species: Balaena glacialis (the right whales) and Balaena mysticetus (the bowheads).