ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Eskimo whale hunters are switching from 19th-century black powder to an explosive considered more humane. During a traditional bowhead whale hunt, a hunter in a wooden-ribbed boat ...
For the earliest known whalers, the hunt was a deeply spiritual experience Humans’ spiritual relationship with whales is as profound as the ocean depths these extraordinary mammals glide through. In ...
The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands. Around it are more bones, more tools, and a coastal story that reaches ...
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Scientists found a 100-year-old unexpected object inside a whale, and the discovery helped estimate its age
A bowhead whale harvested by Inuit whalers in Alaska in 2007 carried a remarkable secret. Embedded in its body were fragments of a harpoon dating back to the late 1800s, a discovery that led ...
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