Sperm whales live in the depths of the ocean. They dive as deep as 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) to forage and spend only ...
The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest ... water and straining it through the baleen plates. Baleen ...
We realized the full extent of what we were seeing was horrific," Wimmer said. Sperm whales eat by diving deep down to feed on squid and fish. They use their mouths like a vacuum and take in ...
Fourteen young sperm whales have died in a mass stranding on a beach in Tasmania, Australia. The whale carcasses were discovered by locals on King Island and reported to authorities on Monday ...
Brian Skerry dives to photograph some of the most elusive animals in the ocean, sometimes on just one breath. Brian Skerry gets a rare opportunity to photograph a social gathering of six sperm ...
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 sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...