Whales. Gettin' older by the minute

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Found a link to this article on a primitive hunter forum I sometimes visit. When all y'all are being boring...

Granted the OP is from 2007 and the article is from 2000, it's news to me. Who knew how old those fuckers could get?

http://pratie.blogspot.com/2007/03/b...200-years.html

In studies that could rewrite biology textbooks and establish whales as the longest-living mammals on Earth, scientists in Alaska and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla have estimated the ages of three bowhead whales killed by Inupiat Eskimos in northern Alaska at 135 to 172 years. At the time it was killed, a fourth bowhead whale was believed to be a stunning 211 years old, the researchers concluded.