In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished ...

An archaeologist sailing fjords on a Viking boat uncovers lost sea routes and hidden harbors once used by Norse sailors.

The hard version of coral polyps produces limestone that is used to form layer after layer of a rigid coral skeleton. Groups ...

Some marine animals produce powerful sounds that can surpass the noise level of a jet engine. These animals use their loud ...

A careful study of artifacts that have spent years tucked away in museum collections across Europe shows that the Magdalenian ...

Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were systematically ...

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ... We managed to identify species such as sperm whales, fin whales, blue whales, all still present in the Bay of Biscay ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three whale species that can be legally hunted as the country expands commercial whaling along its coast. Japan resumed ...

This list of stories includes a killer whale teaching session off British Columbia, a fin whale in Massachusetts performing a rarely seen high fluking dive and a sperm whale’s mysterious upriver ...