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 ...

A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over ... The whale was believed to be around 130 years old at the time of capture- potentially making it the oldest ...

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 ...

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies ... Scientists have also drawn on historical evidence – the harpoon tips embedded in the animals’ blubber. The ...