WILMINGTON – Herb Harriss never heard the story directly from his father, but his mother always had one thing to say about the dead whale that washed ashore in Wrightsville Beach in 1928. “My mother ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On the obverse of this polished sperm ...

Marine biologists are examining the remains of what's believed to be a spade-toothed whale, one of the planet’s rarest marine mammals, which washed ashore on a New Zealand beach on July 4. The ...

A rare whale tooth unearthed at a Copper Age “mega village” in Spain has shed light on the artistry of Iberian people who lived in the Mediterranean region over 4,000 years ago. The tooth, discovered ...

Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 ...

In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued-instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for ...

A team of researchers, led by Dr. Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, recently provided a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of a sperm-whale tooth found in the Copper Age mega-site of ...

Researchers said the “remarkable” ancient site where the tooth was found is known for its size and rare artifacts. Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo S, Luciañez-Triviño M, Muñiz Guinea F, Cáceres Puro ...

Move over, blue whales. There could be a new heavyweight champ in town. Fossilized vertebrae and ribs from a newly discovered ancient whale suggest that it could have outweighed modern blue whales, ...