Whalefall is based on Daniel Kraus's acclaimed 2023 novel and follows Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams), a scuba diver who is ...

MONTEREY – Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface, the planet’s largest-toothed predator hunts for prey, which could include a giant squid or even a shark. Since the deep ocean is dark, the ...

Those in the Savannah area were part of a unique but tragic scene. A sperm whale was beached on the shore of Hilton Head Island over the weekend. Why did this happen and what do we know? What happened ...

Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood. A pod of sperm whales swims off ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast ...

The jawbone of a nearly 50-foot sperm whale that washed ashore on Oreti Beach in New Zealand's southernmost region has been removed with a chainsaw and stolen, according to New Zealand's Department of ...

Sperm whales are highly social creatures that roam the world’s oceans together, diving deep in search of giant squid, their favorite food. As they swim and hunt, these massive marine mammals ...

The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age ...

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