Ira Gershwin put it like this: “Oh Jonah, he lived in the whale, / For he made his home in / That fish’s abdomen.” But Gershwin, or perhaps the character in Porgy and Bess who sings it ...
The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a 25-hour “read-a-thon” each year of Melville’s tome about one captain’s obsession with ...
New Bedford's installing a statue of Herman Melville based on his epic "Moby-Dick," the story of a whaling captain and his ...
9.75 x 13.5 in. (24.8 x 34.3 cm.) ...
NBC News worked with artists to capture the biggest stories from the year. Here are a few stunning illustrations and ...
In 1820, a large sperm whale attacked and sunk a ship — leaving its crew to survive at sea for three months In the Heart of ...
Art on the Underground 2025: the whale tail that stopped a train crash honoured among new tube art commissions - Whales, a ...
A 47-foot fin whale that washed up on Anchorage’s tidal mudflats in November is still drawing visitors, a month later. Why?
Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.
Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the ...
Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert said Friday. The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale ...
New Zealand Department of Conservation When a 16-foot, 3,000-pound mystery whale washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand in July, even the world’s foremost cetacean experts were taken ...
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