Despite not having bones, sharks can grow pretty large. There’s the aforementioned whale shark, roughly the size of a bowling ...

When I was a young journalist, an older female colleague wrote a piece about how much she adored her five-year-old son. For ...

Recently, two cetacean bodies, a bottlenose dolphin and a whale, were tampered with, and the federal law enforcement arm of ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, illustrating ...

FILE PHOTO: A large projectile point made of gray whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago, is pictured in Landes, France, March 30, 2021. Alexandre ...

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago. (Image Credit: Alexandre Lefebvre) Whales are the largest ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters ...

The two oldest ones, both from the bones of fin whales, came from the Spanish Cantabrian sites of Rascaño, dating to about 20,500 years ago, and El Juyo, dating to about 19,800 years ago.

Excavations in 2022 in the Basque cave of Isturitz, France, where several dozen whale bone objects were discovered. Credit: Jean-Marc Pétillon / Christian Normand A study published in Nature ...

Analysis revealed that the bones originated from various whale species, including blue whales, fin whales, and sperm whales. “Humans and whales have clearly been encountering one another for a ...

As far back as 20,000 years ago, humans living around the Bay of Biscay were crafting a variety of whale bones into tools, new research has revealed. A careful study of artifacts that have spent ...