Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Albinism is a rare trait in the whales, which are typically gray in color. First mate Owen Chase wrote later how he saw the whale “appear with ...

Sperm whales are endangered and the largest members ... regions and travel to lower latitudes in search of females for mating. According to the Fish and Wildilfe Foundation of Florida's ...

The sperm whale is the world's largest predator and dives deeper than any other mammal - up to depths of over 2,000m. Its call reaches 220 decibels, the loudest made by any creature on Earth ...

Brian Skerry dives to photograph some of the most elusive animals in the ocean, sometimes on just one breath. Brian Skerry gets a rare opportunity to photograph a social gathering of six sperm ...

Marine scientists are investigating yet another whale death after the carcass of a sperm whale washed up on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, one of at least a half dozen to wash ashore in ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris ...

Scientists have made an alarming discovery about the mass departure of sperm whales from the waters near Mexico, signaling a ...