Sperm whales sleep vertically In the wild, several types of whales have been spotted sleeping horizontally, close to the surface. But sperm whales seem to enter a deeper state of sleep.

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Melville and bath toys aside, “for centuries, the only thing humans cared to understand about whales was how to kill them,” Carl Safina writes in his foreword to SPERM WHALES: The Gentle ...

Sperm whales live in democratic communities and can take over an hour to decide whether to make a turn, a new study has found. New research from Hal Whitehead, a sperm whale scientist at Dalhousie ...

Known as "floating gold" and found in only 1 to 5% of sperm whales, ambergris is used in French perfumes. In 2021 one chunk sold for $1.5 million. Osaka bay, Japan. Getty ...

Experts have found a rare and valuable substance sometimes referred to as "floating gold" inside a dead sperm whale. The animal washed ashore on the Spanish island of La Palma—located in the ...

Whale families communicate a lot underwater. So now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to try to figure out what they're saying.

Coast Guard officers on patrol near Louisiana thought they saw floating debris. It was actually 3 sperm whales, a video shows.

Sperm whales are endangered and are typically found in Alaska and the northern Atlantic, according to Whale Sense. The deep-diving creatures are known to prey on squid, sharks and other fish.

A sperm whale found dead on Nogales Beach in La Palma, Canary Islands, last month may have been worth $500,000 after scientists found a valuable treasure hidden in its entrails.

A scientist in the Canary Islands discovered a 21-pound lump of whale vomit worth around $544,000 in the intestines of a beached sperm whale.

They say the most recent whale has been dead far too long to be the baby whale’s mother. FROM THE ARCHIVES On June 17 1979, 41 sperm whales beached themselves on the coast near Florence, Oregon.