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 ...

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

North Sun” may be read as a grim adventure story based on historical whaling accounts or a symbol of modern-day violence against nature and society.

Learn about the different ideas that came together in Massachusetts to make the right whale the "right" whale to represent the state.

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New evidence from Brazil reveals organized whale hunting began thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

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

The Nantucket Current reported the 9.5-inch sperm whale tooth was sold in December by Rafael Osona Nantucket Auctions, "on behalf of a man who had quietly held on to it for more than 80 years after it ...

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 ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — East Carolina University’s Dr. Jason T. Raupp is the author of a new book, “Wrecked on the Reef: Maritime Archaeology of American Whaleships in the Pacific Ocean,” published ...