If a beach walk in the Salisbury area is on today’s agenda, keep an eye out for a pygmy sperm whale that was beached Monday afternoon at Salisbury Beach State Reservation. The adult male pygmy ...

Sperm whales are extra­ordinarily intelligent animals with deep family traditions and the ability to communicate across oceans with sonic clicks. But when Rowan Jacobsen had a close encounter ...

Sperm whales probably caught our imagination more than most whales because of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," the famous novel which was inspired by the ramming and sinking of the whale ship Essex ...

Minutes' newest correspondent filed her first report from Dominica where she reported on the threatened population of sperm whales.

The authors of this paper report that they have analyzed the bite marks on several fossilized sperm whale skulls from the Miocene era, aged between 6 and 6 million years old, from the Pisco ...

When he saw the pictures, Shane Gero froze. A thick strand of rope, a wayward piece of quarter-inch cord from a fishing net, dangled off the tail of a young sperm whale.To the untrained eye, the ...

She also keeps an eye out for returning whales. Sperm whales can be identified from a distance by notches in their flukes. The last single sperm whale recorded in the area was off Malibu on Sept. 6.

The case of a sperm whale that swallowed whole an entire greenhouse becomes an opportunity to range: from the unnaturalness of the “salad bowl” of Europe feeding Britain tomatoes through the ...