Newsflash: Some whales are really old

Hey Joe (I've decided to stop kidding myself and acknowledge that you're the only one visiting the blog since I came back), whalers killed a 49 foot bowhead whale last month and found the weapons pictured above stuck in it's neck. The crazy thing is that the whale was shot with these weapons maybe 120 years ago. That seems pretty crazy. I know tortoises live can live way over 100yrs, and a while ago some biologists seriously thought that some sharks couldn't die of old age (I can't believe they actually thought that). The article says that they think the whale was 115-130 years old. That's one old fucking whale, man.