A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the island of Raasay. The 15m-long (49ft) animal was spotted in difficulty off nearby Skye on Thursday.

A single sperm whale can eat more than one ton of squid per day. They do eat giant squid on occasion, but most of what sperm whales pursue is relatively small and overmatched. With their clicks ...

Interestingly, a giant sperm whale needs to eat 2,000 pounds a day, but its preference isn’t sharks — it prefers giant squid.

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Lawrence, munching on monkfish, deepwater sharks and even squid. But then something happened to him, the expert explained. Brendon Gould laid down beside this sperm whale for perspective in his ...

The eyes of a giant squid are the size of dinner plates and eyes up to 35cm in diameter have been reported. It’s thought they evolved to spot large predators, such as sperm whales. They do not ...

A large sperm whale was spotted near Arthurstown, Co Wexford on Tuesday close to the Waterford Estuary. Locals had been ...

Most other known remains of giant squid are fragments washed up on beaches or found in the stomach contents of sperm whales. When the Museum specimen was accidentally caught by a fishing trawler it ...

Sperm whale bulls are loners that rove equatorial ... magnifies sounds—the loudest recorded from any animal—to stun giant squid and other prey or communicate with other sperm whales.

sperm whales are known to dive over 3,000 feet in search of squid to eat and generally live deep in the sea. The size of this whale was average for a sperm, as the massive mammals usually weigh ...

The smallest whale species is the dwarf sperm whale, which is about 7 to ... using echolocation to track down giant squid, octopuses and other prey in the pitch-black waters.