Bowhead whales might be the longest-lived mammals on the planet

George send Bada 48 frozen bowhead eyeballs, each about the size of a billiard ball, that he and other biologists had saved from whale hunts in Barrow, Gambell, Wainwright, Point Hope and Savoonga from 1978 and 1997. George knew the relative ages of the whales the tissue samples came from but he didn’t tell Bada, who nonetheless determined which sample came from an infant, a juvenile or an adult.