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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Museu Arqueologico ...

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 ...

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 ...