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

Despite being the biggest whale, the blue whale does not have the biggest brain of any creature. According to the Smithsonian, the sperm whale has the largest brain to have ever existed on Earth.

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Albinism is a rare trait in the whales, which are typically gray in color. First mate Owen Chase wrote later how he saw the whale “appear with ...

Sperm whales -- which have the largest brains of any animal species on Earth -- can combine and modulate different clicks and rhythms to create complex calls, similar to human language ...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with ... They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed ...

Computer models helped decode whale communication. But some scientists say there are barriers that cannot be overcome.

It is probably a first in the cathedral's 1,000-year history – a giant model of a sperm whale hanging from the ceiling.