The island is home to a resident population of sperm whales that can be observed year-round, a rarity among whale habitats worldwide. These whales form matrilineal social groups that rest and ...

Our closest living ancestors descended from primates, but does this mean we don’t share any commonalities with other, non-primate species? A recent discovery is challenging the extent to which we are ...

Whales are increasingly exposed to traffic – and ship strikes.

We round up five destinations where sightings of cetacean life are almost guaranteed in the spring and summer months, from hotspots off the Azores coast to the skerries between Scottish islands.

A decomposing dead sperm whale was found washed ashore in the Philippines. The 50ft (15m) marine mammal's body was discovered on the rocky part of a beach in Catanduanes on April 30. Drone footage ...

“Sperm whales became the center of our research due to their remarkable biological and linguistic complexity,” Dr. Gruber explains to A-Z Animals. “They possess a massive 18-pound brain that is highly ...

An octopus species that measured 66 feet lived alongside dinosaurs and not only competed with them for food, but even ate them. Scientists from China have discovered two new species that roamed the ...

This giant cephalopod dwarfed mosasaurs and other massive marine reptiles that lived during the time of the ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) go deep. They can dive 1,300 to 4,000 feet-deep and also travel as much as 15,000 miles per year. These depths and distances make sperm whales and other whale ...

May 1 (Reuters) - Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are ...

Drone footage has revealed sperm whales headbutting each other—something scientists had only speculated about until now. Surprisingly, it’s younger whales doing it, not the giant males researchers ...