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 ...

The Megalodon may have been the top predator in its time, but it had fierce competition in the form of Livyatan melvillei, a massive prehistoric sperm whale. This whale was no gentle giant – it ...

The sperm whale is the world's largest toothed whale ... Researchers believe this nutrient-rich and fatty oil was a coveted ...

A rare dwarf sperm whale mysteriously washed ashore in Australia, prompting an official investigation, according to news reports. Beachgoers in Adelaide — a city on the coast of South Australia — ...

A sperm whale stranded on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, adding to alarming whale death toll since December. Here's what we know.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris ...

The sperm whale on Cuttyhunk Island was a female measuring 32 feet long and weighing about 11 tons, Hedman said.

Anglers off the coast of Honduras captured rare footage of a pod of orcas eating a sperm whale, according to a new study. Photo from Felix Rottmann, UnSplash While fishing off the coast of ...