Sperm whales have a relatively small lower jaw with peg-like teeth that cannot chew and only holes in the upper ... which acts much like a gizzard to crush food and resist damage from squid beaks.

He speculates that the squid may be sluggish at depth and therefore an easier target for the sperm whales. “Perhaps it’s the only way they can catch them,” says Davis.

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 largest predators in the world, sperm whales, have a voracious appetite for jumbo squid, themselves a fearsome carnivore called "red devils" by fishermen. Yet how sperm whales hunt jumbo squid ...

Pygmy sperm whales are capable of diving at least 1,000 feet to hunt for food, mostly feeding on squid, octopus, crustaceans and fish. Like their larger cousins, the whales use echolocation to ...

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 ...

19 1/2-foot, 103-pound specimen may provide clues to protect endangered whales Looking something like an alien being from the movie "Independence Day," the 19 1/2-foot-long, 103-pound giant squid ...

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 ...

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.

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are the largest toothed whales, with enormous square-shaped heads and the biggest brains of any animal on Earth. These deep-divers are known for hunting down ...

"These sperm whales dive down to a kilometer [0.6 miles] or more in depth to feed on the giant squids, but if they come up to a squid and the squid tries to defend itself by wrapping itself around ...

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 ...