Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris, and teeth. Arguing that the first three were considered ...

History; Whales' teeth are prized by Fijians and other Pacific peoples, Tongans and Samoans in particular. During the 19th century's Pacific whaling industry, fuelled by a Euro-American demand, whale ...

Researchers believe they have found a previously unknown species of beaked whale in waters off Mexico's western coast ... The whales' teeth were unusually placed, Barlow said.