A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. The calf has remoras attached to its body. Gabriel Barathieu, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org ...

Scientists determined the cetacean was a 32-foot long female sperm whale, weighing about 22,000 pounds, said Stacey Hedman, a spokesperson for IFAW. “We were able to get transportation over and ...

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 ...

In a recent incident in Cape Town, two Pygmy Sperm whales, a juvenile and an adult, were found beached at Melkbosstrand. The City of Cape Town (COCT) Marine Animal Stranding Network, along with the ...

Just 26 days after a deceased humpback whale was discovered in Westport, Massachusetts, tragedy has struck again. On January 26, a sperm whale was found washed ashore on the rocky coastline of ...

The OBX Marine Mammal Stranding Network reports that a dead male dwarf sperm whale (kogia sima) washed up on the beach in Carova on January 24. The whale was elderly, was 243 centimeters in length ...

The significant sperm whale bone was spotted on Traigh Thodhrasdail beach, on the island of Tiree. Samuel said: "We knew it was part of a whale but we weren't sure which part - or even which species!

Anglers off the coast of Honduras captured rare footage of a pod of orcas eating a sperm whale ... regions have lower biomass of prey availability which tends to make killer whales passing ...

In the deep ocean off our coast lurk behemoth-size literary legends that we rarely see but can hear. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), a federally endangered species, echolocate and communicate ...

Read more about sperm whales: http://j.mp/sOSais Watch underwater footage of the mammal and hear its strange clicking sounds that are crucial to their survival 5 ...

In Mauritius, a discovery off the coast is changing what we know about sperm whales. After more than a decade of observation, researchers have forged special bonds with these gentle giants who are ...