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 ...

The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...

That’s because Rocha said the rare blue whale skeleton is actually leaking oil. KOBO, short for “King of the Blue Ocean,” has ...

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 ...

After World War I, in response to dwindling whale stocks and a shortfall of whale oil for its own market, some of Norway’s whalers returned to Norway’s own waters, establishing the foundation of ...

Through the 18 th and 19 th centuries, whaling was driven by demand not for meat, but for whale oil, which literally lit the lamps and greased the wheels of the industrial revolution. Other whale ...

Many ships that brought convicts to Australia returned home with a hold full of whale oil. Soon after Albany was settled in 1826, some of the locals tried their hand at the arduous and lucrative ...

Louisiana's oil and gas industry is cheering a move by the Trump administration to roll back protections in the Gulf for the highly endangered Rice’s whale, though wildlife advocates warn it ...

Dan Moss This is not the first time that Rice's whale has faced tragedy. In 2010, the future of the population was not known after a major oil rig exploded and collapsed off the coast in the Gulf ...

The Rice’s whale, which lives in a sliver of the Gulf of Mexico including off Tampa Bay, was already decimated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and scientists and environmentalists ...