This is no easy feat, since sperm whales can dive over 10,000 feet andstay way below the surface for up to 60 minutes. Their habitats themselves stretch for thousands of miles.

"With a significant increase in industrial krill fishing, sadly we are going to see more incidents of whales being killed in one of the last wild places on Earth," he said. "Some krill fishing ...

It gets even more interesting: they sometimes sleep vertically, like this: In the wild, several types of whales have been spotted sleeping horizontally, close to the surface. But sperm whales seem ...

Whales hold many records in the animal kingdom. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived; the sperm whale has the largest brain; and the Cuvier’s beaked whale holds the record for the ...

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized vocalizations in order to understand how sperm whales communicate.

Read more about sperm whales: http://j.mp/sOSais Watch underwater footage of the mammal and hear its strange clicking sounds that are crucial to their survival Is ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – An emaciated dwarf sperm whale found along the coast of Northeast Florida by beachgoers is believed to have been suffering from complications after ingesting a large plastic bag, ...

Kennedy Jr. removed the head of a whale that had washed ashore at Hyannisport's Squaw Island 30 years ago and transported it to his Mount Kisco, New York home has been dropped, according to the ...

Disentangling a giant wild animal in the ocean requires bravery, grit and luck. Unlike with land mammals, you can’t just knock the whale out. Rescuers don’t get into the water; it’s too ...

In a remarkable encounter off the coast of Alaska, human scientists had what they describe as a “conversation” with a humpback whale named Twain. Dr. Brenda McCowan from the University of California ...

A dwarf sperm whale with a large plastic bag in its stomach was euthanized after it was washed ashore on Butler Beach in St. Augustine in September. On Sept. 16, a beachgoer called FWC’s ...