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modrepub Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 05:27 PM
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19th-century weapon found in whale
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Source: AP

BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago.

Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.

"No other finding has been this precise," said John Bockstoce, an adjunct curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_us/century_old_whale;_ylt=Aq0IxmqonDdzWty5xGY_nIrMWM0F



I had no idea whales lived that long....
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