It was back in 1903 when a whale shrine left the traditional territory of the Mowachaht/Mouchalaht First Nation and ended up at the New York Natural History Museum.

With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their ...

The Makah is a marine-based Tribe. Their history and identity are tied to the sea—as are their traditional foods.

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

Whales evolved from land mammals about 50 million years ago. Fossils of primitive whale ancestors have been found in other places in the country, such as Kutch, Gujarat and Kalakot, Jammu and Kashmir.

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago in a Bronze Age human settlement, scientists report in a new preprint study.