The newly described Scaphokogia huachafo had an unusually crooked skull and a heavy, downward-pointing snout, supporting a ...

Have you ever looked closely at the head of a sperm whale? What you might notice, before the creature swallows you up (looking at you, Austin Abrams), is that sperm whales don’t have symmetrically ...

A 6-million-year-old pygmy sperm whale from Peru had both nostrils on the left, a snout angled 31 degrees down and a face ...

An extinct pygmy sperm whale from Peru had both bony nostrils shoved to the left side of its skull, scientists say.

Both nostrils sat on the left side of the whale’s face, and its heavy snout pointed at the seafloor, where scientists think ...

Discover the bizarre anatomy of Scaphokogia huachafo, an extinct whale from Peru with extreme facial asymmetry and a permanent 31-degree downward gaze.

The life of a sperm whale remains largely a mystery. The animals spend most of their time at great depths, diving more than 6,000 feet in pursuit of prey and staying down for more than an hour. They ...

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...