Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses, like the one taken in Newfoundland this week, can help scientists figure out where to ...

Still they do not surface. We have a schedule to keep and so must motor on. The life of a sperm whale remains largely a mystery. The animals spend most of their time at great depths, diving more ...

in a “rare” sighting, a sperm whale was observed swimming into the mouth of a river in Ireland. Just a few dozen sperm whale sightings have been made off the coast of Ireland since 1990 ...

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 ...

A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm whale this week, but one whale expert says the viral video has more value than simple entertainment. Hal Whitehead, a ...

A large sperm whale that became stranded on a Venice, Florida, beach over the weekend has died, police said. On Sunday morning, the Venice Police Department announced that the local beach Service ...

Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally “taking” an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records in 2020.