A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for ...

A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. "After I pulled this one up, I knew I had something every other fossil diver dreams about," Kristina Scott said.

Those in the Savannah area were part of a unique but tragic scene. A sperm whale was beached on the shore of Hilton Head Island over the weekend. Why did this happen and what do we know?

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...

Population decline: Between 2009 and 2015, the population of sperm whales in the central Gulf of California ranged between 20 and 167 individuals, with a total "super population" of 354 whales ...

the captain aboard a Discovery Whale Watch boat noticed a spout and saw it belonged to a sperm whale. Sperm whales spend between 30 and 60 minutes underwater at a time and can be hard to predict ...

Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other for the first time. They hope ...

Researchers analyzed the codas of approximately 60 sperm whales. The ways sperm whales communicate with each other may be more "complex" than scientists previously believed, with new research ...

"Little by little, the sperm whales are divulging their secrets of how they're communicating to us," one expert says. Any scientist will tell you that sperm whales are long-lived, highly ...

Scientists studying sperm whales have discovered that they communicate through a sort of “phonetic alphabet”, enabling them to build a rough equivalent of what humans refer to as words and ...

Sperm whales have a lot to say. The animals spend much of their lives in darkness, searching the ocean's depths for giant squid. So sound rules their world, especially in their tight-knit family ...

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