Sperm whale family life is a complex social network ... a bond that seemed very much like a human parent and baby. Over the course of several years René gathered tender moments between a mother ...
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 ...
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 ...
A baby whale died after being found on a Florida beach with a large plastic bag in its stomach. The dwarf sperm whale was found in St. Augustine, as People reported. The emaciated animal was ...
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. But within hours, tragedy, rather than bounty ...
The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...
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 ...
Visitors inside National Natural History Museum of China in Beijing Photo: Dong Feng/GT Once stranded on Changxing Island in Dalian, Liaoning Province, the 17.1-meter-long body of a sperm whale ...