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 ...

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 ...

Objects once believed to be simple sticks in a Brazilian museum may actually be 5,000-year-old harpoons used for hunting whales, seals, and sharks. Researchers say this discovery could become the ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

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The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...

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 ...