Among all the weird creatures that may live in the murky waters of Buffalo Bayou, whales seem unlikely. But actor Phillip Hays, director Jacey Little and other members of Houston's Horse Head Theatre ...

NEW BEDFORD — A local short film on the festival circuit reimagines how Herman Melville's epic "Moby-Dick" might've landed its title. At first Melville's book was titled "The Whale," then a month ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Although he continued to write poetry ...

A recent gift of charcoal drawings depicting images from Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" to Northern Kentucky University means the school likely has the largest collection of art ...

A new termite species, Cryptotermes mobydicki, was discovered in South America by an international research team. The termite was named for its resemblance to the white sperm whale from Herman ...

A Dutch merchant ship off the coast of Jamaica captured video of an all-white sperm whale swimming in the Caribbean. The sighting has drawn comparisons to Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” — the ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...