Before that, she’s hasn’t seen a sperm whale in the Monterey Bay in 30 years of whale watching, she said. “You see a dark object laying at the surface, and the blows coming up again and ...

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 ...

Finally, the amazing underwater photographer Tony Wu caught a sperm whale with a piece of giant squid caught between its teeth. Must see pics! I'm not sure of the copyright status of the images so I ...

Yet how sperm whales hunt jumbo squid has remained a mystery. Now, by electronically tagging both to peer at their habits up to thousands of feet underwater, scientists are discovering a deep sea ...

The sperm whale and its large prey, the jumbo squid, are among the deepest divers in the ocean, routinely reaching depths of 3,000 feet or more. Now, in a new study, a team of marine scientists ...

Sperm whales lack teeth on their upper jaws and so have no way of biting into prey. Instead, they ingest and swallow prey, most often squid, by suction. A new study reports that a sperm whale that ...

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.

The results showed that the whales kept the same schedule, night and day, diving down to depths from 600 to 1300 feet in order to find their meals, yet the squid didn't spend all their time as ...

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 ...

Dwarf sperm whales can release ink like cephalopods to disorientate predators and other threats. Footage captured near Cape Town, South Africa, shows one whale use the tactic to evade a cape fur seal.

The sperm whale and its large prey, the jumbo squid, are among the deepest divers in the ocean, routinely reaching depths of 3,000 feet or more. Now, in a new study, a team of marine scientists ...