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 ...

Sperm whale research now relies more on technology ... The most common are used for long-range sonar. So-called “creaks” sound like a squeaky door and are used at close range when prey capture ...

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.

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 ...

"We could not confirm its size, but it doesn't look like a calf or juvenile. It looks more like an adult or sub-adult." ...

A sperm whale has died after becoming tangled in ropes ... once the full extent and size of the whale is established. “A range of disposal options will be considered.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

"A range of disposal options will be considered ... and nets that have been lost or abandoned by fishing boats. A sperm whale that died after stranding on the Isle of Harris in November 2019 ...

The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the morning of March 25, according to a news release from the Irish Whale and ...