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 ...

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) 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 ...

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 ...

A 19th-century weapon found in the neck of a 50-ton bowhead whale caught off Alaska shows that cetaceans can live more than 100 ... Harpoon proves whale is 115-130 years old. Mongabay.com. 12 Jun ...

November 01, 2016 at 1:00am GMT. A DONEGAL graveyard which holds the final resting place of the inventor of mechanised whaling harpoon gun is to undergo a major facelift.

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 ...

Police are investigating the theft of 150-year-old whaling harpoon from a Kangaroo Island museum. The one-metre harpoon was prised off the verandah wall of the Hope Cottage Museum at Kingscote ...