Despite sperm whales being the loudest animals on Earth, the divers described feeling their sounds only faintly compared to the ... ever actually happening to a human and researchers have told ...

For the crew of the Essex, it was a day flecked with hope: The lookouts atop the whale-ship saw spouts, telltale signs of nearby sperm whales ... in all human probability, have been avoided ...

Importance: Relatively little is known about sperm whales compared to some other whales, so the scientific research into their health and how they contract diseases is crucial to their conservation.

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain ... including the human-caused climate crisis. It was created using molds from real whales and its smell comes from buckets of rotting ...

When the whale's body was discovered in 2021, it became a sensation not only due to its "well-preserved condition," but also because this was the first time a sperm whale had been found stranded ...