Brian Skerry gets a rare opportunity to photograph a social gathering of six sperm whales near the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Researchers with the Dominica Sperm Whale Project work with ...

In 1820 a massive sperm whale rammed a Nantucket whaling ship, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded 1,500 ...

A giant squid once lived mostly in legend. Scientists had scars, tentacles and dead specimens. They lacked clear footage of ...

In July 2023, a team of researchers tracking whales off the Caribbean island of Dominica noticed something strange. A group of 11 sperm whales—which would normally be spaced out to forage—had gathered ...

Learn more about sperm whale behavior and how this rare footage gives us a better understanding of sperm whale birth. Members of a sperm whale family, Unit A, Aurora, Atwood, and Accra, near the ...

The post Sperm Whales Have Been Speaking for Centuries. We're Finally Listening. appeared first on A-Z Animals. Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in ...

NEW YORK, March 26, 2026 — Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) today announced the publication of two landmark scientific studies presenting the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sperm whale. Science lovers got a treat recently when new research on sperm whales was quietly released. Researchers not only ...

Dominica is about to do something no other nation has done. In the waters off its western coast, where roughly 200 sperm whales live year-round, the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister ...

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“Sperm whales became the center of our research due to their remarkable biological and linguistic complexity,” Dr. Gruber explains to A-Z Animals. “They possess a massive 18-pound brain that is highly ...