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Excuse me

Hunters in Alaska found a whale with a harpoon fired more than a century earlier.

Bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals on Earth – some survive more than two centuries. But in 2007, hunters in Alaska uncovered proof of just how long these giants endure.

Inside a whale’s flesh, researchers discovered fragments of a 19th-century exploding harpoon, the kind used when New Bedford, Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world. The weapon dated to between 1885 and 1895. The whale had been alive with it embedded in its body for more than a hundred years, making it at least 115 years old.

Bowheads (Balaena mysticetus) were once nearly driven to extinction by commercial whaling. By 1921, only a few thousand were left. Today, thanks to protections and Indigenous-led management, their population has rebounded to somewhere between 10,000 and 23,000. Subsistence hunts by Inuit communities in Alaska, who have depended on these whales for millennia, continue under long-held traditions –and it was during one such hunt that the historic harpoon was found.

Scientists confirm the whales’ ages in another way: through their eyes. The proteins in a whale’s eye lens slowly change shape over time, like a molecular clock. By measuring those changes, researchers estimate bowheads can live more than 200 years – surviving Arctic winters, shifting sea ice, and even century-old wounds.

These whales are not only massive – females can reach 60 feet (18 meters) and weigh over 100 tons (90 metric tons) – they are also living archives of human history. A single animal can carry scars of the industrial age, evidence of survival through centuries of change.

The whale with the harpoon is gone now, but its story lingers as proof of resilience – and a reminder of how long life can last in the icy waters of the Arctic.

Learn more:
“In 2007, A 100-Year-Old Harpoon Was Found Inside The World’s Longest-Living Mammal.” IFLScience, 28 Nov. 2024.

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