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The bomb lance fragment, left, patented in 1879, was removed from the neck of a bowhead whale.
A 50-ton whale caught off the Alaskan coast was found to have an antique weapon embedded in its neck, evidence that it survived a similar hunt more than a century ago.
The bowhead whale, captured last month, had been swimming around with a three and a half inch long arrow-shaped fragment embedded deep in its blubber estimated to be between 115 and 130 years old.
The find gives researchers rare insight into the precise age of the whale, a fact usually approximated by examining amino acids in the eye lenses. Although it is rare to find a whale over a century, experts say the oldest were close to 200 years old.
FULL STORY - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1554522/Whale-had-antique-harpoon-in-its-neck.html
.. I didn’t read the entire story.. but how would one know some nut didn’t try killing it a few months or years ago with an antique harpoon?? Maybe the scientists can tell from how the wound grew back? It is curious
