How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

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

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

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

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

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

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300,000 pounds. With its sheer size and strength, it has no natural predators ...

Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine ...

During a mid-January blue-sky day, a pod of orcas put on a show for dozens of onlookers in West Seattle on Friday.

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

There are only 370 right whales left. If human activity doesn't change, the population may not be large enough to continue to reproduce by 2035.

New Canadian research, using decades of samples from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shows that as Arctic krill becomes scarce, fin and minke whales are eating more of the kinds of fish that humpback whales ...