Sperm whale of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, the largest international association of marine mammal scientists in the world, officially uses "Physeter macrocephalus" when publishing their definitive list of marine mammal species. The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale, with adult males measuring up to long and weighing up to . By contrast, the second largest toothed whale (Baird's Beaked Whale) measures and weighs up to . The Nantucket Whaling Museum has a -long jawbone. The museum claims that this individual was long; the whale that sank the "Essex" (one of the incidents behind "Moby-Dick") was claimed to be . A
Creature Features the 1970s, the films of Amicus Productions and Tigon British Film Productions, which included "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" and "The House That Dripped Blood", became popular features on the shows. "Creature Features" also aired many "nuclear monster" and "space alien" science fiction movies. Created in the 1950s, these movies generally featured giant mutant monsters or aliens from outer space terrorizing Earth. These included "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", "The Amazing Colossal Man", "Them!", "Tarantula", "The Thing from Another World", "It Came from Outer Space", "The War of the Worlds", and "Forbidden Planet". "Creature Features" usually aired on Friday