The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

Like other whales, sperm whales migrate throughout the year to different hunting and mating grounds. The total number of sperm whales in Monterey Bay cycled seasonally, and this migration is ...

“The whole ship’s crew were, for a short time, thrown into the utmost consternation and confusion,” first mate Owen Chase ... lookout spotted a shoal of sperm whales on the morning of ...

Fourteen young sperm whales have died in a mass stranding on a beach in Tasmania, Australia. The whale carcasses were discovered by locals on King Island and reported to authorities on Monday ...

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Albinism is a rare trait in the whales, which are typically gray in color. First mate Owen Chase wrote later how he saw the whale “appear with ...

First launched in 2020, Project CETI is working to collect vocalizations to decipher how sperm whales communicate with one another. They have used tags affixed to the whales to track them in real ...

The whale's severe injury was apparent in footage captured shortly after the incident An endangered sperm whale - nicknamed Julio by scientists - has been killed in a collision with a vessel in ...

The sperm whale is the world's largest predator and dives deeper than any other mammal - up to depths of over 2,000m. Its call reaches 220 decibels, the loudest made by any creature on Earth ...