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

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

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

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

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

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

Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling ...

Amid the weird and whimsical anecdotes in Moby-Dick comes this thoughtful gem: “Yes, there is death in this business of ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...