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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eskimo hunters killed a bowhead whale off the coast of Alaska last month and began to chain-saw their way into its blubber. They stopped when the saw hit the tip of an old harpoon lodged deep ...

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 ...

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 ...