Survivors of the whale attack drifted at sea for months, succumbing to starvation, dehydration—and even cannibalism ...

Sperm whales off Western Australia's southern coast have successfully defended themselves from an attack by a pod of orca by defecating at will, creating a "cloud of diarrhoea". The rare defence ...

"Moby-Dick" is inspired by a sperm whale, not a killer whale ... the conditions of the open ocean and follow up attacks by possible orca whales. Eventually, the crew resorted to cannibalism ...

Sperm whales have one of the widest global distributions ... The charity acts after an attack on its staff in the capital and the alleged killing of two patients by police. Experts used underwater ...

Bounded by the Caspian Sea, the former Soviet republic known as Azerbaijan may be one of the last places people would expect to see a beached sperm whale. As the world's largest lake, the inland ...

A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say. Items found included 115 drinking cups ...

Last April, a male sperm whale beached off the coast of Spain with 64 pounds of trash bags and garbage in its digestive system. A month later, a pilot whale swallowed 17 pounds of plastic bags ...