The whales quickly learned how to avoid humans. New research is shedding light on the social intelligence of marine mammals when under a threat of danger. Sperm whales, which were hunted heavily in ...

As the whale watching boat slowly approached, the passengers saw something strange in the water—an 80-foot cloud of red-brown liquid. Just minutes later, an orca hurled a small whale into the air.

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

Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study ...

Archaeological evidence from southern Brazil indicates that Indigenous communities developed specialized whale hunting technologies 5,000 years ago, challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of ...

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 ...

Two sperm whales, dubbed Kiwi and Guava, were spotted seven miles off the Dana Point coast on Tuesday, Sept. 16, a rare sighting of the deep-water dwellers. The sperm whales had been spotted off San ...