A prehistoric leviathan that represents the largest known sperm whale on Earth once hunted smaller whales around 12 million or 13 million years ago, researchers say. Fossils of the whale's skull and ...

A few weeks ago, I saw an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Mass., of "Mocha Dick," a 52'-long, anatomically accurate, sculpture of the white sperm whale that inspired ...

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What would you get if you crossed a whale with a shark? Maybe something like Leviathan melvillei, a long-extinct, hypercarnivorous whale with teeth longer than any T. rex ever had. By comparing those ...

Rarely do scientists get to publish a research paper that begins with the words "The Giant Bite." On Wednesday, fossil hunters from Europe did just that. They've discovered one of the biggest ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: The modern sperm whale might be large but it's a relatively gentle giant. Now a team of ...

The colossal sea creature is thought to have hunted other whales and sea mammals. Leviathan lived around 12 to 13 million years ago and rivalled the famous giant shark megalodon in size Livyatan ...