According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

From Arctic waters to windswept ports, Norway’s nature and wildlife are a major draw, and a Nordic cruise offers a direct way ...

Quick Take Connecticut chose the sperm whale in 1975 to honor its pivotal 19th-century whaling industry and maritime heritage ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

Arctic marine life is notoriously difficult to study because of its remoteness. But drones have enabled whales to be ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

However, size alone doesn't make sperm whales immune to becoming prey themselves. Their main foes are killer whales, while ...

Between 2016 and 2025, researchers sampled humpback, sperm, and fin whales across the Northeast Atlantic, including northern Norway, Iceland, and Cape Verde. Blow samples, as well as skin biopsies, ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn't feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...