Evoking the poster for the original summer blockbuster, a new species of killer sperm whale attacks a baleen whale in an illustration.
Researchers from his lab and that of St. Andrews University biologist Luke Rendell, another former Whitehead student, have studied sperm whales around the world.
an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale.
This gastropod (from the Hydatinidae family) was recently discovered living on a sperm whale carcass in the deep sea near Kagoshima in southern Japan.
The sperm whale is believed to dive deeper than any other cetacean .
Long believed to exist only in the brains of humans and other great apes, in 2006 spindle cells were discovered in the same brain areas in humpback whales, fin whales, killer whales, and sperm whales.
We knew what the Earth looked like from outer space before we knew what the sperm whale looked like underwater.
However, its close relative, the Colossal Squid, may grow to much greater sizes, as evidenced by the size of sucker marks on sperm whales.
