Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

Swimming in the ocean is not just great exercise; it also provides a connection to nature proponents say is especially ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...

To unravel the mysteries of these difficult voyages, the researchers employed a unique combination of numerical simulations ...

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, ... nations including Taiwan and Japan have long-established fisheries ...