Humpback whales aren’t just recovering in numbers. Learning to hunt together may help them survive a warming, unpredictable ...
Seeing wildlife can be a rewarding and enriching experience if you love nature and the great outdoors. However, you should be wary of unethical practices.
IT’S on your left,” I hear someone say, muffled through the water. I spin round and barely a foot away is a beautiful ...
The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.
We witnessed these apex predators combing the shoreline for their favorite pinniped prey, and they easily connected." ...
The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...
Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling ...
Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To better understand and protect this endangered species, scientists must piece ...
After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...
As a result of more whales washing up dead, NOAA declared an “unusual mortality event” in California in 2019. Between 2019 ...
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from ICTA-UAB and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB reveals that Indigenous communities in ...
Several harpoons and the remains of whales on the south coast of Brazil show that people 5,000 years ago were able to hunt ...