Rarely do scientists get to publish a research paper that begins with the words "The Giant Bite." On Wednesday, fossil hunters from Europe did just that. They've discovered one of the biggest ...

A prehistoric leviathan that represents the largest known sperm whale on Earth once hunted smaller whales around 12 million or 13 million years ago, researchers say. Fossils of the whale's skull and ...

What would you get if you crossed a whale with a shark? Maybe something like Leviathan melvillei, a long-extinct, hypercarnivorous whale with teeth longer than any T. rex ever had. By comparing those ...

A few weeks ago, I saw an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Mass., of "Mocha Dick," a 52'-long, anatomically accurate, sculpture of the white sperm whale that inspired ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

One of the largest and most powerful marine predators was a prehistoric killer sperm whale so big in size it rivalled the famous giant shark megalodon. Named after the Biblical sea monster and the ...

The fossilised skull of a colossal whale with a killer bite has been uncovered by a team who reckon the monster shared the Miocene oceans with a giant shark. The bones, dated to 12 to 13 million years ...

Leviathan Melvillei, which was named after the sea monster in the Bible and the author of “Moby Dick” Herman Melville, is an ancestor of the modern day sperm whale, said Rodolfo Salas, a ...

Paleontologists digging near the coast of Peru have uncovered the largest fossilized skull of a sperm whale ever found. The 12-million-year-old skull, which measures nearly 10 feet across, belonged to ...

What would you get if you crossed a whale with a shark? Maybe something like Leviathan melvillei, a long-extinct, hypercarnivorous whale with teeth longer than any T. rex ever had. By comparing those ...

LIMA (Reuters) - The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man's forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologists who on Thursday said it may have been the ...