A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over a century have been discovered embedded in their bodies, continues to intrigue scientists. The mysterious bowhead ...

After a 2007 hunt, a whaling captain in Barrow found a fragment of a "bomb lance" — used to hunt whales in the Arctic for almost 150 years, it's a harpoon infused with gunpowder that explodes on ...

A SPECIES of whale believed to be so old and mysterious that harpoon arrows from 100 years ago were found to be embedded in them. A giant bowhead whale was captured off the coast of Alaska with a ...

Alaska Native hunters have found six ancient harpoon points in bowhead whales since 1981, two made of slate, two of other stone, a metal blade and an ivory harpoon head tipped with metal.

In 1987, the whaleboat Maria Armanda took to the sea for one last hunt. Though whaling had officially ended in the Azores several years prior, the men whose livelihoods had depended on it could ...

When whaling in North America hit its peak in the mid-1800s, hundreds of ships armed with gun-loaded harpoons set off on hunts in the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

The whale harkens back to far different era. If 130 years old, it would have been born in 1877, the year Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as president, when federal Reconstruction troops withdrew ...

Sitting in front of the television set, I was in a frenzy of excitement Sunday night. My giddiness had nothing to do with the telecast of the first installment of ”Amerika”; I couldn`t have ...

A Bowhead whale was found with a century-old harpoon fragment in its neck (Picture: Mads Peter Heide-Jurgensen) The tip of the bomb lance fragment, patented in 1879, ...

A Bowhead whale was found with a century-old harpoon fragment in its neck (Picture: Mads Peter Heide-Jurgensen) A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over a ...