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 ...

This ability to poop at will as a form of self-defense is a rare trait and defense mechanism used by sperm whales. The pod of orcas attempted to attack the sperm whale group on Tuesday ...

"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 ...

Scientists have made an alarming discovery about the mass departure of sperm whales from the waters near Mexico, signaling a worrying shift in the larger ecosystem. According to The Hill ...

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 sperm whale that washed ashore this month in Nova Scotia starved to death after consuming 150 kilograms of fishing gear, the Marine Animal Response Society said Friday. The executive director of ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...

The Caribbean island of Dominica says it will create the world's first sperm whale reserve. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said commercial fishing and large ships would be banned in an area off ...

First launched in 2020, Project CETI is working to collect vocalizations to decipher how sperm whales communicate with one another. They have used tags affixed to the whales to track them in real ...