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Megalodon's mortal attack on sperm whale revealed in ancient tooth
An ancient sperm whale tooth has gouge marks on it that may have come from an megalodon attack.
Sperm whales: The biggest toothed predator
Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales, with enormous square-shaped heads and the biggest brains of any animal on Earth.
Stranded minke whale stinks so bad it's like 'death in a dumpster'
A dead minke whale that washed ashore in a Massachusetts town smells so horrible that authorities plan to cart it to a landfill.
Humpback whale swallows lobster diver before spitting him out
Humpback whales hunt by taking big lunges at groups of fish, so the encounter was likely a fluke.
Will humans ever learn to speak whale?
Cutting-edge technology is helping researchers collect and analyze whale communication.
Nuclear bomb detectors uncover secret population of blue whales hiding in Indian Ocean
Scientists using sound recordings from underwater nuclear bomb detectors have discovered the distinct song of a previously unknown population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean.
Orcas 'attacked' humpback mother and calf. Now the calf is missing.
Whale watchers in British Columbia recently witnessed a group of transient orcas attacking a humpback mother and calf in a rare encounter between the two species. But what really happened?
Baby minke whale euthanized after getting trapped in Thames River
The injured baby whale slipped free from rescuers on Monday morning, and became stranded again after swimming upstream into shallower waters.
