The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...

A sweeping new highway – nearly 25 years and C$1bn in the making – is reshaping life in Newfoundland and Labrador and opening ...

The lighthouse's actual anniversary was Wednesday. Its original whale oil lamps first were lit on June 11, 1764, said John Harlan Warren, a spokesman for the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National ...

The New York street lanterns burning whale oil were, in 1761, merely “yellow specks engulfed by darkness,” and, even more than 100 years later, its gas lamps were still “faint as a row of ...

Gary Lawson began many of his jokes in The Far Side comic strips with two simple but dark and foreboding words, "Uh oh." ...

Many causes can contribute to the extinction of a species. Luckily, these animals once thought on the brink of extinction are ...

Cabin life Pioneer life in Tamaqua would’ve been simple and hard. Moser would’ve used candles for light, along with whale oil lamps or coal oil lamps. Washing was done by hand, either at the streams ...

Father’s Day is a time to treat Dad to the finer things in life. What could be finer than accessories for a Victorian gentleman? Maybe the box that holds them. This Victorian gentleman’s traveling ...

A trio of health experts have launched defamation case against Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater and tobacco lobbyist Carrick Graham. Prof Doug Sellman of the University of Otago, Prof Boyd ...

Gran Baya, as it was called by those who founded the station in 1530s, was used as a base for coastal hunting, butchering, rendering of whale fat by heading to produce oil and storage. It became a ...