WÀSEISEI, ALSO KNOWN AS WÀSEKASEKA; Wàseisei are necklaces made from slivers cut from Sperm Whale teeth. These elaborate, labour-intensive forms of bodily adornment were worn by Fijian chiefs in the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris ...

And if whales really had made this huge transition ... particularly their large, triangular cheek teeth, strongly resembled those of mesonychids, a group of hoofed Eocene carnivores.

In past centuries, you might have given your valentine a bent coin, jewelry made out of hair, or a carved whale tooth instead of a bouquet of roses to express your love. A miniature lover’s eye ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

In other studies of beaked whales, vestigial teeth were determined to have receded ... Weights and measurements and descriptions were made of various muscles and organs to help us describe this ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

The only part of their skeleton not made from this soft, flexible tissue is their teeth. The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and ...