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Benoît Girodeau, aka Natty Gong, got the experience of lifetime when two sperm whales saved him from a white tip shark.
Giant Sperm Whale vs. Great White Shark: Size The giant sperm whale is much larger than a great white shark. It is around 59 ...
Authorities say the 44-foot-long whale may have been ill Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment ...
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 ...
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 ...
Volunteers remove remaining lengths of rope from the whale after it was found stranded on Monday A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the ...
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Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...
Just how big is a sperm whale? When one washed up on the beach near River of Ponds, photographer Brendon Gould thought of a ...
Whale watchers caught a glimpse of what they believed was an albino pygmy killer whale while out swimming with its pod off the Hawaiian coast on March 28. Travis Woo, who is a safety swimmer for a ...
A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm whale this week, but one whale expert says the viral video has more value than simple entertainment. Hal Whitehead, a ...
A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm whale this week, but one whale expert says the viral video has more value than simple entertainment. Hal Whitehead, a ...