{"id":628083,"date":"2026-09-26T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:52:10","slug":"a-mysterious-organ-in-the-sperm-whales-head-gives-it-the-power-to-sink-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628083\/","title":{"rendered":"A mysterious organ in the sperm whale&#8217;s head gives it the power to sink ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">In all three cases when a whale attacked the mother ship, the attacker was a sperm whale. In 1851, in the South Pacific, a sperm whale charged the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org\/permalink\/?key=1003_m507\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ann Alexander<\/a> and completely wrecked it. In 1902, too, a sperm whale wrecked <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ppl.libraryhost.com\/repositories\/2\/resources\/77?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Kathleen<\/a>, which was sailing off the Galapagos Islands. But it was the fate of the Essex that became perhaps the most infamous survival ordeal in maritime history.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In all three cases when a whale attacked the mother ship, the attacker was a sperm whale. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-628083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}