We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher ...

collisions like this one, between marine mammals and large ships, are one of the leading causes of death for sperm whales. The number of these incidents has increased in recent decades.

"And it seems like it actually did work in this case ... they'd potentially taken out a calf, as one of the sperm whales did look significantly smaller than the others," Ms Tucker said.

The researchers used AI to analyze and look for patterns in roughly 9,000 codas collected by the Dominica Sperm Whale Project ... We feel a lot like we're baby whales," Gruber said.

FUN FACT: Pygmy sperm whales can produce ink when threatened, just like squid. Apparently, TMMSN has seen over 40 pygmy sperm whales along the coast since 1980. The imminent threats facing this ...

A new study on sperm whales off the coast of Ireland has found females and their calves are swimming in higher latitudes than before. The presence of the whales at higher latitudes is most likely ...

The presence of female sperm whales has become more frequent off the coast of Ireland, which could be linked to climate change, according to a new study. The study on female, juvenile and calf ...

There is very little information available about pygmy sperm whales. Per the Society for Marine Mammalogy, the whales are not often sighted at sea, and most of what is known about them is derived ...

JAKARTA: A sperm whale has been found stranded at Teritip Beach, about 35km north of Balikpapan city in East Kalimantan, with local residents and officials trying to help the animal back to the sea.