HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

California State Parks rangers found the adult pygmy sperm whale on the beach north ... The 10-and-a-half-foot-long whale “had numerous skin abrasions (marking and cuts), but that was likely ...

Sperm Whales belong to the suborder of toothed whales ... it was worth more than its weight in gold but this is no longer the case. Its skin is dark or brownish grey, with white markings around ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

A large sperm whale that became stranded on a Venice, Florida, beach over the weekend has died, police said. On Sunday morning, the Venice Police Department announced that the local beach Service ...

The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...

A sperm whale's brain weighs about 17 pounds (8 kilograms ... They have a thick layer of fat under their skin. This fat, called blubber, keeps the heat in and the cold out.

Its skin is typically dark grey ... and the shark attacks. Sperm whales are not known for being protective of humans, but their docile nature and rare interactions with divers such as Girodeau ...