Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Some say they got this name because sailors noticed their ability to dispatch enormous whales and dubbed them ‘whale killers’ ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display ...

Explore the remarkable similarities and differences between sperm whales and giant squid, from size and behavior to diet and ...

Dominica recently set aside nearly 800 square kilometers of the Caribbean Sea as the world’s first Sperm Whale Marine ...

Scientists have revealed how much squid Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales must harvest from the deep each day, using high-tech tags to track their demanding foraging behavior. Credit: Shutterstock ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn't feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

A 52-ton sperm whale that washed ashore on Nantucket was examined, but no obvious cause of death was found. Scientists conducted a "window necropsy" and sent samples for further lab analysis. Sperm ...

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...

One of Trevor Barrett’s excavators and a Robert B. Our tugboat were used to remove the dead sperm whale from Nantucket’s north shore Friday. Marine mammal experts from the International Fund for ...

A 3-foot gash across the back, along with bruising, have been documented on the massive sperm whale that washed ashore on Nantucket’s north shore on Nov. 16, according to the Marine Mammal Alliance ...