After examining it, researchers discovered that the whale had been around 130 years old and the weapon had been a harpoon dating back to the 1900s. John Bockstoce, curator at the New Bedford ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

Scientists have also drawn on historical evidence – the harpoon tips embedded in the animals’ blubber. The study notes that in 2007, a whale was taken in a traditional hunt and found to have ...

Sperm whales being hunted by whalers quickly adapted their behaviour and learned how to avoid harpoons, according to new research. Did Japan ever really stop commercial whaling? Japan to resume ...

An English sailor, having just served on George Weymouth's exploratory voyage to the territory that would become Maine, publishes an account of a Native American whale hunt. Fastening harpoon ...

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers. Analysis of proteins from ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

An English sailor, having just served on George Weymouth's exploratory voyage to the territory that would become Maine, publishes an account of a Native American whale hunt. Fastening harpoon ...

Newspaper articles from the time describe how Wickham bravely approached the animal, using an improvised harpoon to 'dispatch the big fish'. After the female whale was finally slain, the carcass was ...