Researchers say ‘massacres’ of Aboriginals ended cultural burning practices that made woodlands more resistant ...

Scientists have blamed Captain Cook for Australia's recent wave of deadly mega-fires, more than 250 years after the British ...

Captain Cook may have been dead for 247 years, but he’s still in deep water. Because while he may have charted Australia’s ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national ...

Researchers believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of legendary British explorer, James Cook. Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping the ...

Beneath the sprawling, gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii's pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there's no buried treasure to be found here.

On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis. Cook had been sent to the region by the British admiralty, ...

Statues of historical figures have been pulled down in several cities across the globe, off the back of the Black Lives ...