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.