After conducting a necropsy, officials determined that the young pygmy whale had a nearly empty stomach. The only contents ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — A dead baby sperm whale washed ashore Monday morning on Palm Beach. WPTV Chopper 5 flew over the area, about a half-mile north of Mar-a-Lago, around 10 a.m. and spotted the deceased ...

Quick Take The sperm whale was designated Connecticut’s official state animal in 1975 to honor a 19th-century whaling empire ...

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Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally “taking” an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records in 2020. The ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

New research reveals a previously unknown dimension of sperm whale vocalizations, shedding light on their complex communication system. This new study reveals that two discrete coda-level patterns ...

The whales quickly learned how to avoid humans. New research is shedding light on the social intelligence of marine mammals when under a threat of danger. Sperm whales, which were hunted heavily in ...

At one point in Douglas Adams's hilarious Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a baby sperm whale has some thoughts as it plummets toward the planet Magrathea. This appealing but doomed animal had just ...