Wow

[mort]

Weapon fragment found in whale reveals it was more than a century old

BOSTON (AP) - A 45-tonne 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 13-centimetre arrow-shaped projectile that has given

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[r3dqu33n]

Such a pity the whale didn't make it to 200. When a creature gets that old, I wish hunters would give it safe passage. Such a long survival seems to earn that right to me.

I think I used to wait on Bockstoce. That name reads familiar. He's probably someone who used to shop in the first bookstore I worked at.

[funambulator]

That is amazing.

[morty_baby]

Fuck. This saddens me.