A huge shark bit the head off a stranded pygmy sperm whale in New Zealand as a person standing in waist-high water attempted to get the whale back out to sea. The shark, likely a great white ...

A deceased pygmy sperm whale calf was found washed up on the beach just east of South Beach Road in Buxton on Tuesday morning ...

After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the whale.

It isn’t completely uncommon along the East Coast. The most recent whale death before this happened in August when a pygmy sperm whale washed up on the Outer Banks. It was found emaciated in ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the City of Cape Town’s (CoCT) Marine Animal Stranding Network were alerted to reports of Pygmy Sperm whales beached at Melkbosstrand. ALSO READ | Guinness World Records ...

To find food in the dark, deep-diving whales, like sperm whales, pygmy sperm whales and goose-beaked whales, send out clicks and buzzes from a vocal cord-like structure near their blowholes. These ...