A live, pygmy sperm whale calf was reported stranded on the beach in Emerald Isle Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2025. This whale was a ...

Galway PhD student Seán O’Callaghan develops a novel method for identifying sperm whales using aerial photographs.

You can say that again! Right whales (not to be confused with the Beluga whale, which is also nicknamed 'white whale') are an ...

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 ...

STUART — Fishery managers are trying to find a sperm whale that reportedly came within 100 feet of Bathtub Beach early Wednesday. A sea turtle nest monitor reported seeing the whale shortly ...

In a social media video that has amassed over 10,000 views, Gould lies on the rocks next to a thawing and decaying sperm whale. Sperm whales can weigh between 15 and 50 tonnes and measure between ...

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 ...

in a “rare” sighting, a sperm whale was observed swimming into the mouth of a river in Ireland. Just a few dozen sperm whale sightings have been made off the coast of Ireland since 1990 ...

While hunting in the equatorial Pacific, the Essex crew encountered a sperm whale bull some 85 feet long ... its great flukes thrashing the sea to white water. The collision shook the 238-ton ...

Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales in the world, reaching 45 tons and living for decades. Their populations were imperiled by historic whaling practices and they are still considered rare ...