When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...

Learn how ancient shell mounds reveal that coastal communities in Brazil were hunting large whales thousands of years earlier ...

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

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...