“Whaling was the oil industry of its day,” says Hal Whitehead, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an expert on sperm whale behavior. “Oil from the sperm whale quite literally ...

In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers with Project CETI have ...