A 25-tonne whale carcass was towed past more than a dozen South Coast beaches on Friday, attracting sharks in its wake, but ...

When sperm whale researcher Rui Prieto shouted “head ramming!” during a routine day of research off the coast of Spain, the scientific team on board was understandably excited. After all, this type of ...

What a Moby-Dick! Sperm whales filmed headbutting for first time to validate classic novel. Scientists have filmed sperm whales headbutting one another for the first time - validating scenes depicted ...

Four sperm whales that stranded separately on southeastern U.S. coastlines between 2020–22 were emaciated and malnourished, with ingested fishing gear and marine debris found in two of them, according ...

On a bright-blue morning in July, 2023, a team of researchers took off in a catamaran from the island of Dominica in search of sperm whales. Sperm whales communicate via bursts of clicks, called codas ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can ...