Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from the Arctic. Picture of Krista McGrath analyzing one of the harpoons that ...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Eskimo whale hunters are switching from 19th-century black powder to an explosive considered more humane. During a traditional bowhead whale hunt, a hunter in a wooden-ribbed boat ...

A bowhead whale harvested by Inuit whalers in Alaska in 2007 carried a remarkable secret. Embedded in its body were fragments ...

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Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, harpoons found in museum ...

Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected. Five-thousand-year-old whalebone harpoons and other artifacts along Brazil’s southern coast suggest ...

The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands. Around it are more bones, more tools, and a coastal story that reaches ...

Historians and archaeologists long considered that the origins of organised whaling lay in the Arctic region of the Earth. A recent discovery in southern Brazil disproves this hypothesis. In the ...

Harpoons crafted from the bones of humpback and southern right whales show Indigenous groups in what is now Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago. The discovery, which included 118 whale bones ...