John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens ... are known to have the cells: humpback whales, sperm whales, fin whales, orcas and bottle-nosed dolphins.

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy ... years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The designation Messier 77 comes from the ...

And when it was first named 100 years ago, the species was described by looking at partial specimens found in the stomach of a sperm whale. The SuBastian Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV ...

Until now, all knowledge about this usually ginormous animal had been pieced together from those early sperm whale stomach segments, and a handful of deceased colossal squid accidentally caught by ...

In 1925, fisherman first found the remains of a colossal squid inside a sperm whale. Over the next century, only eight adult colossal squids have been found, all postmortem. “It’s exciting to ...

Their “most significant predator” is the sperm whale. “Writers have often imagined that this species engages in fierce battles with sperm whales, leaving both species injured,” according ...

Their “most significant predator” is the sperm whale. “Writers have often imagined that this species engages in fierce battles with sperm whales, leaving both species injured,” according ...

You may have heard of the giant squid, which is famous from mariners' legends and for its epic battles with sperm whales. The colossal squid is even bigger and more mysterious. It's so elusive ...

In “Second Life,” the journalist Amanda Hess navigates the stratified landscape of contemporary reproductive technology.

In 1820, an angry sperm whale sank the whaleship ... men to the awesome wonder of the whale. Instead of seeing their prey as a 50- to 60-ton creature whose brain was close to six times the size ...