The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although whaling is an ancient practice, just how ancient it is and who the first whalers were, is unclear. But the discovery of ...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

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

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

New research shows that sperm whales, the last whales to be harpooned by Australia, have still not recovered more than 35 years after the last whale was killed in the Southern Ocean. Read more posts ...

Activist group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday released graphic video of Japanese fishermen harpooning whales in the Southern Ocean after a long battle with the Australian government to make the images public ...