A popular theory is that a dead whale buried on a South Carolina beach led to two shark bites in June. Two experts weigh in ...

Population decline: Between 2009 and 2015, the population of sperm whales in the central Gulf of California ranged between 20 and 167 individuals, with a total "super population" of 354 whales ...

But the way that sperm whales find squid was until recently a puzzle. The orange octagonal box in Kelly Benoit-Bird’s office at Oregon State University is an echo sounder transducer.

They eat squid, octopus, fish, ... Sperm whales search for their food in deep waters – their hunts regularly reach 2,000 feet below the ocean surface and last for 45 minutes.

The exodus of sperm whales from Mexico’s Gulf of California in response to jumbo squid population declines may be indicative of broader ecosystem instability, a new study has found. As apex ...

North Atlantic right whale is "likely to die" after becoming entangled, NOAA says 01:30. A 40-foot sperm whale was found dead along the Oregon coast on Saturday, after its body washed ashore on a ...

Patrick Dykstra has a life-changing experience in Dominica when he has a close encounter with a sperm whale he names “Dolores.” During this first encounter, he attempts to communicate with her ...

"And because sperm whale's diet consists mostly of squid, they actually have this really reddish coloured poo," she said. "And it seems like it actually did work in this case," she said.

Sperm whales are social beings; individuals associate in families, who then collect in clans. The males, who can reach 100,000 pounds to females’ 30,000, stay with their mothers for a decade ...

Deep-water squid is the favorite food of sperm whales. And these whales devour a lot of squid. According to the Dominica Sperm Whale Project’s website, sperm whales “eat as much squid in a year as all ...