This discovery sheds new light on understanding the lives and hunting practices of ancient people who lived along the coasts ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

Evidence from Brazil’s coast suggests Indigenous communities hunted whales 5,000 years ago, pushing back the origins of ...

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,” ...

Archaeologists have found evidence that humans hunted whales in Brazil at least 5,000 years ago, reports Historienet. They ...

A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how complete it is. Credit: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural ...

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of ...

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

Mystic — In the Thompson Exhibition Building at Mystic Seaport Museum, massive wrought-iron blubber hooks only begin to convey the scale of the task 19th century whalers faced. The two 43-inch-long, ...

Long before the ocean’s largest filter-feeders roamed the seas, their smaller, sharper cousins ruled the warm shallows. One such predator, newly named Janjucetus dullardi, offers a striking glimpse ...