Sperm whale cranium

**Description: **This is a 3D light structured surface scan of a sperm whale (*Physeter macrocephalus*) stranded in the 1930s in Norway. This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Digital Collections Programme, to find out more visit www.nhm.ac.uk/digitalcollections **Comments: **Sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales and largest toothed predator on Earth. The sperm whale is a deep-diving species which uses echolocation to find its prey, which includes the giant squid. It has a wide distribution across almost all marine regions. **Specimen number:** NHMUK ZD 2007.100 Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0020467) and [specimen record](http://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/fc5f2fd6-b92f-464e-92e3-0a095bf6f790) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.