Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What a Moby-Dick! Sperm whales filmed headbutting for first time to validate classic novel. Scientists have filmed sperm whales ...

For centuries ship captains have written accounts about how some of the world's largest animals rammed each other and even sunk ships. The 1820 sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a reported 26-metre ...

"Moby-Dick" is indelible in the literary imagination, and that beast-like whale has himself become a deep repository of assigned meaning and symbolism. The whale is the unforgiving power of nature.

“GOD hunt us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!” But it was Captain Ahab who came off worst in the encounter. And that’s not surprising. Studies of sperm whales’ heads suggest they’re ...