The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Wellington writer Una Cruickshank explores earthly curiosities and patterns in her award-winning essay collection The ...

VENICE, Fla. — A No-Swim Advisory was lifted Wednesday morning, a measure previously in place after a sperm whale beached itself and died off the coast of Venice on Sunday.. City officials said ...

Sperm whales are social beings; individuals associate in families, who then collect in clans. The males, who can reach 100,000 pounds to females’ 30,000, stay with their mothers for a decade ...

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, ... Sperm whales search for their food in deep waters – their hunts regularly reach 2,000 feet below the ocean surface and last for 45 minutes.

A 44-foot-long, 60,000-pound sperm whale was found stranded along the shore in Venice. Now, researchers are trying to figure out why it ended up there.

Many Savannah-area residents were amazed and heartbroken to see a sperm whale washed up on the shore of Hilton Head Island. What may have caused this?

Sperm whales are found in oceans across the globe, but their populations are still recovering from being a main focus of the commercial whaling industry from 1800 to the 1980s. “As scientists ...

VENICE, Fla. (AP) — In a rare occurrence along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a large sperm whale that drew national attention after beaching itself on a sandbar died Monday, state wildlife officials said.