Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales in the world, reaching 45 tons and living for decades. Their populations were imperiled by historic whaling practices and they are still considered rare ...

A Lowcountry man has agreed to plead guilty to federal felony charges of trafficking in sperm whale teeth and bones, according to court records. Lauren DeLoach, a 69-year-old Beaufort area ...

The specimen will be kept at the Osaka Museum of Natural History, which has skeleton specimens of a sperm whale and a humpback whale that turned up in Osaka Bay. According to the museum ...

The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels. For context, 140 decibels is the ...