Police are conducting a death investigation after the body of a woman was found in a Gilbert neighborhood lake Tuesday morning. A maintenance worker found an elderly woman floating in a lake near ...

Santa’s sleigh will glide through the Gilbert Islands tonight — across the lake in the community’s traditional Parade of Lights. Paul Cox has decorated his boat as a bright red sleigh and will join ...

A collection of vicious weapons made of shark teeth reveals that two species of sharks vanished from the reefs of Kiribati before scientists even noticed the species were there. Until about 130 years ...

A mid-nineteenth-century trident illustrates a changing marine ecosystem in the South Pacific Archaeological artifacts create not only a record of human behavior, but can also record past ...

A chronology of key events: 11th-14th centuries - Samoans migrate to the islands, Fijians and Tongans follow. 1820 - Named the Gilbert Islands, after British naval captain Thomas Gilbert who came ...

A trident lined with shark teeth, used in the study. Image via PLOS ONE/Drew et. al. For decades, a total of 124 swords, tridents and spears taken from the Pacific Ocean’s Gilbert Islands in the ...

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life sticks you on an isolated island surrounded by shark-infested waters, make utterly badass weapons out of shark teeth. This is what the people of ...

Shark-tooth weapons once used for warfare in the Central Pacific have revealed two locally extinct shark species, a new study says. Historical records show that natives of the Gilbert Islands (map), ...