"Moby-Dick" is inspired by a sperm whale, not a killer whale ... the conditions of the open ocean and follow up attacks by possible orca whales. Eventually, the crew resorted to cannibalism ...

Sperm whales off Western Australia's southern coast have successfully defended themselves from an attack by a pod of orca by defecating at will, creating a "cloud of diarrhoea". The rare defence ...

A Belgian-based art collective known as Captain Boomer is behind the dead whale art installation outside the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.

The whale was humanely euthanized due to its condition, officials said. When an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf washed ashore on a Florida beach last month, officials brought the distressed ...

Scientists have made an alarming discovery about the mass departure of sperm whales from the waters near Mexico, signaling a worrying shift in the larger ecosystem. According to The Hill ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...

A sperm whale is seen in an undated photo published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA photo) Federal prosecutors are recommending that an Alaska fisherman serve six ...

A sperm whale is seen in an undated photo published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA photo) Federal prosecutors are recommending that an Alaska fisher serve six months ...

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