A large sperm whale was spotted near Arthurstown, Co Wexford on Tuesday close to the Waterford Estuary. Locals had been ...

"We could not confirm its size, but it doesn't look like a calf or juvenile. It looks more like an adult or sub-adult." ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau was diving off the coast of Mauritius when he was approached by an ...

Whalers pursued sperm whales for the rich oil in their oversized heads. Now biologists are on the tail of these deep-diving, long-lived, sociable and mysterious sea creatures. Gerard Soury ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. “Death to the living, Long life to the killers, Success to sailors’ wives, And greasy luck to ...

A rare sighting of a sperm whale was made in the Waterford Estuary. Members of the public using the estuary have advised to ...

“No news is good news” in the tale of the sperm whale sighted in Waterford Estuary last week. There have been no sightings of ...

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 ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research drawing similarities between the whale species' language and human ...

Sperm whale was first spotted within 100 yards of Bathtub Beach Wednesday NOAA, FWC and Harbor Branch are looking for the sperm whale They're concerned it's sick and will strand itself soon STUART ...