LONG BEACH, Wash. — Biologists are trying to determine what caused the death of a female gray whale that washed ashore a ...

The rare sighting of a living juvenile colossal squid has scientists stunned and thrilled.

You can say that again! Right whales (not to be confused with the Beluga whale, which is also nicknamed 'white whale') are an ...

Lauren H. Deloach admitted to importing sperm whale teeth and bones from Australia, Latvia, Norway and Ukraine.

With no other source of livelihood, Nantucketers dedicated themselves to the single-minded pursuit of the sperm whale, and they soon surpassed their whaling rivals on the mainland and Long Island.

To fascinate us, sperm whales do not require vengeful tempers, like that possessed by Herman Melville’s fictional white leviathan, Moby Dick, though some controversial new research suggests they ...

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...