Ancient whale-bone harpoons found in Brazil reveal Indigenous whale hunting 5,000 years ago, long before the use of metal ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

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

Dive beneath the waves of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where sea otters play, humpback whales migrate, and ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

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 ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that large whale hunting began in southern Brazil some 5,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than previously established by archaeological ...

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...

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 ...

Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling on Icelandic officials to ban the practice permanently.