William Mullen

One day at midafternoon early in August, a collection of aluminum and wooden outboard fishing boats, their small motors stilled, bobbed in the light chop of Manitoba`s mile-wide Churchill River....

Though man has known and pondered whales, dolphins and porpoises from antiquity, we still know very little about them. They are among the most enigmatic of all creatures on Earth....

Originally, he says, the group rallied to the cause of stopping Norwegian, Japanese and Icelandic whaling operations that still slaughter much of the wild whale population in the world. The...

When he was 70 years old in early 1980, C.E. ''Dick'' Hayes stopped by the Bybee Stone Co. in Ellettsville, Ind., to see an old friend who was a master...

The resurgence in interest in Indiana limestone means that about 800 persons now are employed in the industry, perhaps double the number of 10 years ago. That is good news...

''We`re working on a 155-acre patch, though we own 1,800 acres,'' says John Edgeworth, president of Victor Oolitic Stone Co., a firm whose history also goes back to 1871. Edgeworth`s...

Catching a beluga whale from the mouth of Manitoba`s Churchill River is an exercise in the blending of ancient native Indian know-how and state-of-the-art 20th Century marine biology. The Shedd...

Chicago`s first two whales exchanged the briny deep for the high altitudes early Thursday in a 7 1/2-hour flight to Tacoma from Churchill, Manitoba. The two young female belugas arrived...

The Great 1989 Shedd Aquarium Whale Expedition has a problem: It has three whales, and it can bring only two back, and it has to make the cut by Saturday....

Officials of Chicago`s Shedd Aquarium made a sudden decision to take home early Thursday two of the whales they captured here instead of waiting until Saturday. Aquarium officials said the...