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  2. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    Scrimshaw was the art of engraving on the teeth of sperm whales. It was a way for whalers to pass the time between hunts. The sperm whale's ivory-like teeth were often sought by 18th- and 19th-century whalers, who used them to produce inked carvings known as scrimshaw. 30 teeth of the sperm whale can be used for ivory. Each of these teeth, up ...

  3. Livyatan - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, its tooth count was lower than those sperm whales, and, aside from the modern dwarf (Kogia sima) and pygmy (K. breviceps) sperm whales, it had the lowest tooth count in the lower jaw of any sperm whale. [1] [8] The most robust teeth in Livyatan were the fourth, fifth and sixth teeth in each side of the jaw. The well-preserved ...

  4. Whale - Wikipedia

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    One exception is with the sperm whale, which has males larger than the females. [35] [36] Odontocetes, such as the sperm whale, possess teeth with cementum cells overlying dentine cells. Unlike human teeth, which are composed mostly of enamel on the portion of the tooth outside of the gum, whale teeth have cementum outside the gum. Only in ...

  5. Boaters left with ‘jaws gaping’ as two ‘titans of the ocean ...

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    Four more sperm whales eventually surfaced. Sperm whales are massive deep-sea predators with a gray body, pointed teeth and a block-like head. Naturaliste Charters shared a video of the rare ...

  6. Zygophyseter - Wikipedia

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    Like in other raptorials, and unlike in the modern sperm whale, Zygophyseter had tooth enamel. [8] [9] [10] Like in Acrophyseter, the mandibular foramen takes up about 40% of the lower jawbone. The teeth of the upper jaw form an angle of nearly 120 degrees between the crown and the root, which is possibly a characteristic shared by all ...

  7. Ivory - Wikipedia

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    Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is the same, regardless of the species of origin, but ivory contains structures of mineralised collagen. [1]

  8. Toothed whale - Wikipedia

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    One exception is with the sperm whale, which has males larger than the females. [17] [18] Odontocetes possess teeth with cementum cells overlying dentine cells. Unlike human teeth, which are composed mostly of enamel on the portion of the tooth outside of the gum

  9. Mammal tooth - Wikipedia

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    The toothed whales, comprising the Odontoceti parvorder of the cetaceans, are differentiated from the baleen whales by the presence of their teeth. The number of teeth and their function can vary widely between species, with some dolphins having over a hundred teeth in their jaws, while the narwhal has two functional teeth in its upper jaw ...