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 ...

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Cantor and Whitehead used an underwater microphone to listen to the sperm whales' clicking sounds, and located differing codas. “Our findings show that biased social learning is a required ...

Toothed whales have teeth. There are more than 70 species of these whales including sperm whales, beaked whales, killer whales, and dolphins. “These whales have teeth and actively hunt larger prey ...

Marine scientists are investigating yet another whale death after the carcass of a sperm whale washed up on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, one of at least a half dozen to wash ashore in ...

Scientists and artists from the University of Southampton came together for a night of talks and performances underneath giant sculptures of sperm whales. Almost 500 people joined the audience at ...

Scientists determined the cetacean was a 32-foot long female sperm whale, weighing about 22,000 pounds, said Stacey Hedman, a spokesperson for IFAW. “We were able to get transportation over and ...

In the deep ocean off our coast lurk behemoth-size literary legends that we rarely see but can hear. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), a federally endangered species, echolocate and communicate ...

Just 26 days after a deceased humpback whale was discovered in Westport, Massachusetts, tragedy has struck again. On January 26, a sperm whale was found washed ashore on the rocky coastline of ...