“Whaling was the oil industry of its day,” says Hal Whitehead, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an expert on sperm whale behavior. “Oil from the sperm whale quite literally ...

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

Quick Take The sperm whale was designated Connecticut’s official state animal in 1975 to honor a 19th-century whaling empire ...

Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...

Sperm whales live in groups with complex culture and communication. Sperm whales use a complex system of codas–short bursts of clicks–to communicate. In this study, the team collected 9,000 codas from ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...

Permit-based, small-group expeditions in Dominica offer ethical swimming with sperm whales, redefining whale watching in the Caribbean. NY, UNITED STATES, January 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — One With ...