The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

They waited for weeks. When at last a dead whale, 78 feet long, was secured, it took weeks more of "greasy, laborious and puzzlin" work to make plaster molds of the whale and then cut away the flesh.

A southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons, vertebra with a hole made by a harpoon. At Clarke’s request, the animal was killed by harpoon for scientific study. It turned out to be a lactating ...

Labor’s great white whale has always been tantalisingly in reach, but never more than right now. Will this be the year they finally land their prized catch, asks Joe Hildebrand.

T he re is an old Cape Cod legend about a whale named Crook Jaw. The story goes that Ichabod Paddock, a masterly shore whaler from Yarmouth, was time and again routed by the great leviathan. His ...

A view of John Akomfrah's “Vertigo Sea,” part of the "Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...

The study notes that in 2007, a whale was taken in a traditional hunt and found to have an explosive Yankee Whaler harpoon tip embedded in its blubber, which was last manufactured in 1885. These ...

Using makeshift harpoons and rafts, a hunter spears a large whale. It would have been a welcome kill for hunter-gatherers living in one of the world's driest regions, Chile's Atacama Desert, 1,500 ...

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies, according to new research. A recent report published in Science Advances concluded that most great whale ...

Of the world’s 39 “floating factories,” which annually take 3,000,000-odd barrels of whale oil, only two fly the U. S. flag. Smaller of the two is the American Whaling Co.’s 6,400-ton ...

One With the Whale Season 25 Episode 15 | 1h 18m 4s | AD CC For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die. Aired 04/22/2024 | Rating TV-14 ...