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.

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

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.

How sperm whales live and hunt in the oceans of the Americas. The deep sea activities of sperm whales, including their hunting behaviors, have been something of a mystery for centuries.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...