Imagine a world where enormous beasts clash beneath the waves, locked in a struggle for survival. Picture a creature as long ...

(via PBS Eons) Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan ...

The sperm whale, on the other hand, uses its superior size and strength to ram the squid with its jaw. It also uses its long teeth to bite and maim the squid, rendering it unconscious or dead. The ...

A new technique to identify sperm whales using aerial photographs has been developed by a Galway-based PhD student Seán O’Callaghan. The Atlantic Technological University (ATU) student from Killarney, ...

Two of those five were also gray whales; the other three were a fin whale, a humpback whale and a sperm whale.

A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth gray whale ...