moby-dick, sperm whales

‘Moby-Dick’: The Tale of a Whale That May Not Be So Fictional

Ever since the book Moby-Dick was published in 1851, people have debated whether a sperm whale could actually sink ships using its colossal head as a battering ram. An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Olga Panagiotopoulou from the University of Queensland, has been researching this very theory. In their research, published in PeerJ, the biological and medical sciences ...

Troy Oakes

The tail of a sperm whale is seen above the seawater with a cloudy sky in the background.