ANCHORAGE -- Sperm whales have learned to pluck sablefish hauled from the black depths of the Gulf of Alaska, showing a dexterity that belies their enormous size and toothy, underslung jaws.

Despite what you might think, sharks are not the apex predators of the ocean. That accolade goes to these: orca whales. However, their cousins, sperm whales, have developed an interesting tactic for ...

Officials think they know what killed a massive sperm whale that washed ashore on Thursday, about 12 miles north of Seaside ...

Like humans, sperm whales love sablefish, also known as black cod, a fish prized for its rich, buttery taste. Alaska fishermen used to harvest black cod in frenzied derby-style openings using ...

Ambergris is often described as one of the world’s strangest natural occurrences. It is produced by sperm whales and has been used for centuries, but for many years its origin remained a mystery.

Calling in influence from Robert Frank's black-and-white photograph collection of the same name, PETE's new work prods at the tumultuous history of American social relations. Read the full preview ...

Kimberly Jeffries spotted the dead sperm whale from nearly half a mile away—a white mass the size of a bus bobbing in the calm early-morning waters. “It was one of those rare weeks where there ...

A 40-foot sperm whale washed up dead on the shore of the Oregon coast, and officials believe a ship was likely the cause of the endangered animal's death. The sperm whale washed up on a beach ...

[Related: How great white sharks probably hastened the demise of megalodon] Unlike baleen whales that feed on tiny organisms, sperm whales are toothy predators that munch on fish and other marine ...

which was mostly white. Nat-Pong / Department of Maritime and Coastal Resources The most famous of them, is the fictional sperm whale, Moby DIck, from Herman Melville’s novel of the same name.

Researchers reanalyzing 15-million-year-old fossils unearthed in California over a century ago have described a new sperm whale genus: Albicetus, after the toothy white leviathan of Herman ...