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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1800s, some unknown whalers sailed the frozen waters of the Arctic, hunting down a bowhead whale. They were equipped ...