However, the sperm whale’s skin is not as thick on its underbelly, so it relies on its ability to turn its tough back toward any incoming threats. Despite their size and strength, sperm whales ...
"We looked at data on blue, fin, sei and sperm whales and found significant declines in body size, with sperm whales taken in the 1980s four metres shorter on average than those in 1905," said Dr ...
But despite their size and their expressiveness, sperm whales remain one of the ocean’s biggest mysteries. Do they share complex ideas? What are the dynamics in their family groups? And what ...
A dead whale has washed up on the beach at Fort Morgan on the Alabama coast. The Dauphin Island Sea Lab confirmed a sperm whale carcass washed up along the shore in Fort Morgan, WKRG-TV reported.
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 ...