How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...
When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...