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Bowhead Whale - Average Life Span Over 200 Years One hundred may be old for humans - and tortoises - but it's nothing for the bowhead whale. In fact, he's only middle-aged at that point in his astoundingly long life. This species of whale can live for over 200 years. According to BBC Nature , a bowhead can survive for over two centuries because he has a very low body temperature - and the lower an animal's body temperature, the longer it can live.
In 2006 the Associated Press, the reported that a bomb lance fragment dating back to the 1890s was found in the blubber of a bowhead whale found off the coast of Alaska, making the whale's age between 115 and 130 years old. Amazing.