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 ...

The boat’s skipper, 69-year-old Jan Bjørn Kristiansen ... Over the course of the summer whaling season, Kristiansen will harpoon perhaps 30 or 40 minke whales, butcher their carcasses on ...

Once the 140 pound harpoon with an exploding head had been ... are acknowledged leaders in the ongoing battle to end commercial whaling. The old time whaling reached a peak around 1845, with ...

So it was when Moby Dick* was a virile old devil. But intelligence ... and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive. *Semi-fabulous white whale whose demoniac history was recorded by ...

When the undersea cacophony is considered alongside other threats, such as ship collisions and fishing net entanglements, life for marine mammals can seem as inhospitable as in the old commercial ...

A reminder of this exploitation was found in 2007, when a bowhead whale in Alaska was found to have fragments of a harpoon ...

When one is spotted, a team pushes an umiak onto the water. There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat.

Watching the 8mm Whale family films my dad shot when we were kids on the old Kodak takes me back to happier times. Which we ...

Volunteers pass out whale blubber and skin to residents in Kaktovik. Residents like Charles Lampe, a 48-year-old whaling captain who also serves as president of the village corporation ...

For now, he’s keeping his options open. Scott Kapnick, the press-averse 65-year-old chief executive of private credit manager HPS Investment Partners, has been busy drawing up the firm’s next ...

A free award-winning movie called “One with the Whale” will be showing at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Great Lakes Maritime ...