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

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Archaeological evidence from southern Brazil indicates that Indigenous communities developed specialized whale hunting ...

Evidence from Brazil’s coast suggests Indigenous communities hunted whales 5,000 years ago, pushing back the origins of ...

In 2004, the United Nations introduced the “Who Cares Wins” initiative, formally launching the Environmental, Social, and ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these ...

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 ...

It’s the earliest-known case of enhancing hunting weapons with poison in the human historical record.

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

Recently, three bone arrowheads stored in a poison-filled bone container were reported from Kruger Cave in South Africa dating to almost 7,000 years ago. This pushed back direct molecular evidence of ...

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have put together a multi-dimensional argument that Indigenous ...

Ohio’s white-tailed deer might seem like an obvious state symbol, but that familiarity is exactly why it works. Few animals have influenced daily life in this state as consistently or for as long.