Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Mongabay
Jan 10, 2025, 3:42 pm528 ptsHotTop
Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 years — longer than any other mammal. New research, inspired by that work, indicates that right whales (genus Eubalaena) also have extremely long lifespans of 130 years or more. The study,…

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