Following the global “Save the Whales” campaign and public outcry, hunting of these marine mammals stopped in all but a few ...

Several harpoons and the remains of whales on the south coast of Brazil show that people 5,000 years ago were able to hunt ...

Historians and archaeologists long considered that the origins of organised whaling lay in the Arctic region of the Earth. A recent discovery in south.

Quick Take Connecticut chose the sperm whale in 1975 to honor its pivotal 19th-century whaling industry and maritime heritage. Beyond history, the sperm whale symbolizes intelligence, resilience, and ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Archaeological evidence from southern Brazil indicates that Indigenous communities developed specialized whale hunting ...

For Massachusetts, the North Atlantic right whale represents more than a large animal moving through offshore waters. It ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...