Sentences with phrase «old sperm whale»
«Scientists discover «white whale» fossil: Researchers re-analyze 15 - million - year - old sperm whale fossil, find «white whale».»
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Working in Peru, they unearthed similar teeth along with the giant skull and jaw of a fearsome, 12 - million - year - old sperm whale.
Not exact matches
The old estimates were based on 20th - century data from the whaling industry itself, which estimated a worldwide sperm - whale population of about 1.8 million, a number that few scientists found credible.
The two oldest and distinct groups of squid eaters, sperm whales and beaked whales, grew large body sizes because of the physiological demands for diving to the great depths where their prey lives — a pattern that pilot whales repeated.
A 15 million year - old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
The Harry Potter star plays Old Thomas Nickerson in Ron Howard's new epic, starring Chris Hemsworth, based on the 1820 event when a whaling ship was preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days.