whale of a time capsule


	whale of a time capsule

shankargallery

6-16-2007 11:44 AM

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"The recent discovery of a 19th-century bomb lance in a bowhead whale suggests that this species can live well over 100 years. The bowhead whale was hunted to near extinction in its native Arctic and subarctyic waters for its thick layer of blubber, oil and baleen."

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While butchering the whale's body with a chainsaw, they found that he was carrying a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped bomb lance fragment (top) that was embedded 13 centimenters under the blubber in his neck, providing researchers with rare insight into this individual's age, which was estimated to be between 115 and 130 years old. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/06/a_whale_of_a_time_capsule.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/602A8757-956B-44F3-B789-278916F16B90" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC8B0BCE-6F6E-4A45-B2AB-9DF55F9509D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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