Carrier wondered why evolution had apparently endowed sperm whales with the heady wherewithal to sink a ship. Carrier and coworkers speculate that male sperm whales use their heads to batter ...

Your body slowly sinks to the bottom of the ocean ... whales and none of the hot spots for fin or sperm whales. For each species, we found that ship-strike risk was higher within exclusive ...

Joe Morgenstern was the movie critic for The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in May 1995.

“In the Heart of the Sea” recounts the harrowing journey of a New England whaling ship sunk by a giant whale ... turn when a ...

Bates It was the fourth sinking of its long career ... but there are no more big squid, so no more sperm whales. We think it’s because the water is warming at depth.” The world’s oceans ...

The whales got their name because they were the "right" whales for whalers, being twice the average size as far as blubber and oil per pound was concerned, and having the commensurate fatal attraction ...

Humanity’s growing aquatic din—oil and gas exploration, construction, military sonar, and most of all ship engine noise—is a clear harm, disrupting the basic activities of sperm whale life.

Lauren H. DeLoach of South Carolina admitted to importing more than $18,000 worth of sperm whale parts from Australia, Latvia, Norway and Ukraine, prosecutors said. By Johnny Diaz A South Carolina ...

When those plankton die, they sink — along with the nutrients. But sperm whales swim deep. "All that value is lost to the ocean ecosystems unless it's brought back up. And that's what the sperm whale ...

EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (WITN) - A sad discovery at Emerald Isle this week as a live Pygmy sperm whale calf stranded itself and later died. The NC State Center for Marine Sciences and Technology says ...

A massive dead whale washed onto the North Carolina shore, drawing thousands to a beach 97 years ago.