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 social media video that has amassed over 10,000 views, Gould lies on the rocks next to a thawing and decaying sperm whale. Sperm whales can weigh between 15 and 50 tonnes and measure between ...

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 ...

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 ...