In the fall, some right whales migrate from their northern feeding grounds down to the warmer waters off the United States’ ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

New research shows whale hunting in South America dates back 5,000 years, reshaping views of early maritime societies.

Learn more about the whale bones originally thought to be woolly mammoths' and how the hunt for the youngest mammoth ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of ...

For decades, fossils discovered in Alaska were believed to belong to ancient mammoths, but recent testing has shocked ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Tiny sharks have long been blamed for the eerily perfect circles carved into the skin of whales, dolphins and even submarines ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...