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 ...

When the whale was at 150 feet or less, he would sight and fire the harpoon gun on the bow. Once the 140 pound harpoon with an exploding head had been fired into the whale, it was secured to the ...

In the carcass of a whale, they found fragments of a weapon embedded in its flesh – but this wasn’t a modern piece of equipment. The harpoon was traced back to the 1900s, and after ...

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 a century have been discovered embedded in their bodies, continues to intrigue scientists. The mysterious bowhead ...