A crew of 25 people performed a necropsy on the animal Monday, after it had been euthanized, to probe deeper into why it washed up on Hilton Head Island.

Monday, researchers were back on Hilton Head Island after a whale beached over the weekend. They made their first attempts at ...

A beached sperm whale on the shores of Hilton Head Island. Photo courtesy of Hilton Head Island Government and Facebook. WRAL staff A juvenile sperm whale that beached on the shores of Hilton Head ...

Ambergris is a rare substance which was worth $80 an ounce in the perfume industry,” but no traces of it were found inside Trouble. Roughly two years after the whale was discovered on the shore ...

Whale falls are usually not seen by human divers ... bacteria on the surface of the bones and those living symbiotically inside animal hosts. This stage can last decades, with more than 200 ...