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 ...
The tooth belonging to the whale was probably found along the coast after spending time underwater, as shown by tiny bioerosion marks left by sea creatures. The researchers suggest that after it was ...
Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales in the world, reaching 45 tons and living for decades. Their populations were imperiled by historic whaling practices and they are still considered rare ...
A male northern bottlenose whale. Source: Cephas/Whitehead Lab, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY SA 4.0 license. A century of commercial whaling across the North Atlantic cut a swath ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The activities of whaling were ...