After a massive sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket, responders are examining it and making plans for what comes next.

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Short-finned pilot whales are the ghosts of the Hawaiian coast. They often appear briefly at the surface before diving out of ...

One of Trevor Barrett’s excavators and a Robert B. Our tugboat were used to remove the dead sperm whale from Nantucket’s ...

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...

The whale, which washed up on Sunday, had its jaw excised to prevent thieves from stealing its teeth, officials said.

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

The 50-foot-long dead sperm whale that washed up Sunday on Nantucket will be taken back to sea to decompose for safety ...

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting down and eating great white sharks alive. A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them - ...

ONLY two sperm whales out of a pod of 50 are believed to be alive after a mass stranding off Tasmania's northwest tip. The whales grounded at Perkins Island, near the mouth of the Duck River at ...