Hard whale heads sink ships - or can they? Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2016 - The idea that a sperm whale can use its massive head as a battering ram to sink ships has been hotly debated at least since Moby Dick was published in 1851. University of Queensland researcher Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou, part of an international team researching the theory, says scientific evidence about the phenomenon remains scarce. "The forehead of the sperm whale is one of the strangest s ... more

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