November 20, 1820, was a bright morning in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, 1,500 nautical miles west of the Galápagos Islands ...

Federal prosecutors are also recommending that Dugan Paul Daniels pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing ...

The whale was humanely euthanized due to its condition, officials said. When an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf washed ashore on a Florida beach last month, officials brought the distressed ...

Liberal Studies: Beloved Hong Kong bull Billy found dead with stomach ... Last April, a male sperm whale beached off the coast of Spain with 64 pounds of trash bags and garbage in its digestive ...

The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...

Learn more › Marine biologists are inching closer to understanding the ins and outs of sperm whale communication. But in order to decode what the cetaceans are saying, they must first need to ...

The whale's severe injury was apparent in footage captured shortly after the incident An endangered sperm whale - nicknamed Julio by scientists - has been killed in a collision with a vessel in ...

In a University of Washington-led paper published in the journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it’s sobering: Global shipping traffic overlaps with about ...

"The departure of sperm whales from the Gulf of California serves as a sentinel signal, reflecting significant shifts in ...

Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The ...