A viral photo authentically depicts a gray whale's front fin bones, which resemble the bones in a human hand. Rating: What's True: The photo is authentic and it depicts a whale's front fin bones ...

In the last ten years, technological improvements have enabled researchers to date the oldest tools to roughly 20,000 years ago. They discovered that the bones belonged to blue whales, fin whales ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

A new study has shown that as far back as 20,000 years ago, people were making tools out of whale bones. Whale bone tools from 20,000 years ago expose ancient coastal life Skip to main content ...

Radiocarbon dating (which determines the age of organic materials) revealed that the oldest bones in the collection date back to around 19,000 to 20,000 years ago, “making it the oldest evidence ...

Researchers have identified the world’s oldest known whale bone tools. This spear point made of gray whale bone, from a French rock–shelter, dates to between 18,000 and 17,500 years old.

(Reuters) -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 ...

A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the French National Center ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of 20,000-year-old bone tools from Spain demonstrates that humans used whale remains from at least five large species, including sperm, fin, blue, and ...

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the ...

A Beaufort man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges related to illegally trafficking endangered sperm whale bones and teeth. Lauren DeLoach, age 69, was charged under the Lacey Act ...

Hunter-gatherers living along the shores of the Bay of Biscay crafted hunting tools from the bones of at least five different whale species 20,000 years ago, marking the oldest evidence of ...