He collected specimens that inspired his theory of Natural Selection.This carved sperm whale's tooth, or scrimshaw, was made on the HMS Beagle. It is made from ivory and was carved by James Bute.

Certain skeletal features of archaic whales, particularly their large, triangular cheek teeth, strongly resembled those of mesonychids, a group of hoofed Eocene carnivores. (The massive ...

The world’s first autopsy of this rare whale enabled indigenous people and conservation scientists in New Zealand to learn more about the Mesoplodon traversii, or spade-toothed whale. The whale ...

Into polished sperm whale’s teeth, baleen and whalebone – and, less commonly, dolphin and blackfish jaws, narwhal and walrus tusks – whalemen scratched their longings and visions ...