It’s Enough To Make You Blubber

Whale Had A Nervous Tic (Tick-Tick, Tick-Tick)

Part of a 19th-century bomb has been found inside a whale. The fragment is part of a time delay bomb that was introduced in 1879 and manufactured until 1885. This suggests the bowhead whale may have swum its first strokes not long after the Civil War. Scientists say it is rare to find a whale more than 100 years old but believe some may reach 200. The nine-centimetre fragment was lodged in a wound inflicted about 1890.