A family of sperm whales asleep, just off the coast of Dominica. BBC Studios The whale is diving to the ocean floor to hunt for food, which means she can then make milk for her calf.

The Sperm Whale’s Deadly Call ... In 1712, so the story goes, one Captain Hussey’s vessel was blown offshore south of Nantucket Island while hunting right whales for their oil.

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

Sperm whale communication may have similarities to human language (Credit: Amanda Cotton/Project CETI) Researchers studying sperm whale communication say they've uncovered sophisticated structures ...

An analysis using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) found that 131 of those specimens were whale bones belonging to sperm whales, gray whales, blue whales, fin whales, and right or ...

Sperm whales hunt by doing deep dives, and they can dive to over 10,000 feet for over 60 minutes, the NOAA said. They typically eat squid, sharks and other fish that are typically found deep ...