Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive ...

A limited necropsy of a 52-ton sperm whale that washed up on Nantucket was conducted Nov. 21. What was found, and where were ...

A dead sperm whale weighing more than 100,000 pounds washed up on a Nantucket beach, but a local nonprofit says it can't be ...

The 50-foot-long dead sperm whale that washed up Sunday on Nantucket will be taken back to sea to decompose for safety ...

After a massive sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket, responders are examining it and making plans for what comes next.

One of Trevor Barrett’s excavators and a Robert B. Our tugboat were used to remove the dead sperm whale from Nantucket’s ...

We use the latest media reports of a dead sperm whale washed up on Nantucket beach in Massachusetts to examine how to remove ...

A sperm whale shows its flukes. Scientists use AI to decipher the languages of sperm whales and many other creatures. NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center/Kim Shelden For years, scientists have ...

A sperm whale, the world’s largest-toothed animal, showed up just 11 miles outside of the Long Beach Harbor this week, hanging out in 900 feet of water on Tuesday, April 9. “It was amazing,” said ...

Scientists and Nantucket officials are trying to figure out what to do about a huge whale that washed up on the island.

For years, scientists have listened to the clicks of sperm whales and wondered what they were saying. While previous research scratched the surface of understanding, a new study — published May 7 in ...