We attribute the stark difference in longevity in North Atlantic right whales to human-caused mortality, mostly from entanglements in fishing gear and ship strikes. The school board is aiming ...

We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

Four generations of Andersons have run the grocery store in Georgetown. But after their sister passed, two siblings are ready ...

We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them. In an era when fewer young ...

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life ... Scientists have also drawn on historical evidence – the harpoon tips embedded in the animals’ blubber.

“But I had to drop my kids at school and couldn’t get ... it never gets old.” Els Vermeulen, who heads up the Whale Unit for the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute, watches ...

The ocean quahog, a type of clam, is known for its incredible longevity, with one specimen named "Ming" living to be 507 years old ... whales can live over 200 years, with evidence from stone ...

Bowhead whales were known to live up to 200 years, and a new study finds that southern right whales may live up to age 150 if ...

Photo from Chengyu Wang, UnSplash Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades ... researchers have found 19th century harpoon tips embedded in bowheads ...