But most of a sperm whale’s clicking, if not most of its life, is devoted to one thing: finding food. And in the Sea of Cortez, the focus of its attention is Dosidicus gigas, the jumbo squid.

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died ... They can dive to two miles (3km) underwater to hunt squid. Highland ...

The sperm whale has the biggest brain on the planet. It uses its intellect to hunt for deep-sea fish and squid in complex social groups. MORE: Sperm whale intelligence. All that brainpower helps ...

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 ...

in a “rare” sighting, a sperm whale was observed swimming into the ... While traveling far below the surface, they hunt for squid, skates, sharks and other bottom-dwelling species.

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the ... You can even tell when she catches a squid because the clicks speed up to a shrill intensity and then suddenly stop, as she presumably ...

But Whitehead says the whale's journey wasn't some seasonal migration. "I think he was just living his life," he said, floating around the Strait of Belle Isle or the Gulf of St. Lawrence, munching on ...

Perfumers covet a rare kind of whale poop known ... is essentially a clump of squid beaks bound by a fatty secretion. Over time, it balls up in the intestine of some sperm whales.