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Sperm whale tooth The lower jaw is long and narrow. The teeth fit into sockets along the upper jaw. (lifelike sculpture) The sperm whale's lower jaw is very narrow and underslung. [56] The sperm whale has 18 to 26 teeth on each side of its lower jaw which fit into sockets in the upper jaw. [56]
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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 ...
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Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...
The dwarf sperm whale is a small whale, 2 to 2.7 m (6 ft 7 in to 8 ft 10 in) and 136 to 272 kg (300 to 600 lb), that has a grey coloration, square head, small jaw, and robust body. Its appearance is very similar to the pygmy sperm whale, distinguished mainly by the position of the dorsal fin on the body–nearer the middle in the dwarf sperm ...
Sperm whales, Sharma said, also use a two-level combination of features to form codas, and codas are then sequenced together as the whales communicate. The lower level has similarities to letters ...