A sperm whale spotted off the coast of Gwangyang Harbor in South Jeolla last week was seen moving back toward deeper waters ...

A sperm whale has died after it became stranded in the Firth of Clyde last month. British Divers Marine Life Rescue received ...

The life of a sperm whale remains largely a mystery. The animals spend most of their time at great depths, diving more than 6,000 feet in pursuit of prey and staying down for more than an hour.

A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the island of Raasay. The 15m-long (49ft) animal was spotted in difficulty off nearby Skye on Thursday.

The 14-metre sperm whale was spotted in the shallows of Ettrick Bay on Tuesday (April 8), and was sadly found to have died at ...

The sperm whale wouldn't let go and kept chasing the shark,' Girodeau said. The female is seen 'diving upside down' as she positions herself between him and the shark, making sure the predator is ...

Free diving, the underwater equivalent of tiptoeing ... a biologist at Denmark’s Aarhus University and founder of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project. Each year Gero’s team tracks families ...

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 ...

So far, the deep diving record holder is the Cuvier's beaked whale ... Yet these animals are small compared to something like a sperm whale - so how do they do this?' Beaked whales are difficult to ...

Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses, like the one taken in Newfoundland this week, can help scientists figure out where to ...

Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface. Trials have been done using "ropeless creels" which have the main line in a container along ...

which spans the range of 'clicks' that different species of deep-diving whales employ. For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) squid and pieces of squid beak that had been recovered from the ...