A rare strap-toothed whale has died after an attempted stranding on East Clive Beach on Wednesday. Locals spotted two of the ...

A sperm whale’s tooth can weigh more than two pounds and they are illegally trafficked to be used as decorations and for ...

A rare dwarf sperm whale mysteriously washed ashore in Australia, prompting an official investigation, according to news reports. Beachgoers in Adelaide — a city on the coast of South Australia — ...

New Zealand scientists have begun dissecting a spade-toothed whale, considered the rarest whale in the world, marking the first time researchers have been able to study a complete specimen.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

It was 16 feet long and weighed 3,000 pounds. Cetacean experts were stunned to see that it was a spade-toothed whale. The carcass was in surprisingly good condition, allowing researchers to ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

A sperm whale stranded on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, adding to alarming whale death toll since December. Here's what we know.

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen ...

One significant area of research has been the study of the cranial evolution of cetaceans, which includes both baleen and toothed whales. A recent analysis of 201 living and extinct cetacean ...

In Campbell Fraser’s immersive art installation, three sculpted sperm whales (the largest of the toothed whales), hang from ...