with whaling nations establishing remote land stations and deploying factory ships that could spend months at sea processing whale oil on board. By the 20 th century, industrial-scale commercial ...

Despite being collected 160 years ago, the bones of the bowhead whale are still leaching oil. Typically, when a fresh whale specimen is collected, preparators will attempt to remove as much of this ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

At first glance, a whale skeleton might seem like a mere relic of the past. However, that of KOBO, a blue whale, reveals an unexpected surprise. Despite its death more than twenty years ago, its ...

He said that the ruling should apply to all oil and gas leasing in the Gulf. The Rice’s whale lives in Gulf waters and nowhere else — and was only discovered to be a distinct species a few ...