Sperm whales have the biggest brain of any (known) animal on earth. They can weigh up to 20 pounds. By comparison, a human brain weighs, on average, about three pounds. And while brain size doesn ...

A sperm whale's brain weighs about 17 pounds (8 kilograms) — about five times heavier than a human brain — making it the ...

Although sperm whales are the only creatures in the ocean with throats large enough to swallow a human, they are not known to attack humans. The species is generally docile, but will defend ...

Sperm Whales belong to the suborder of toothed whales ... The creatures have a life expectancy roughly equivalent to a human’s, at around 70 years. Males grow to around 18.3 metres (60 feet ...

A recent study by Stony Brook University postdoctoral fellow Mason Youngblood revealed the complex efficiency of whale ...

A diver has shared remarkable footage of two giant whales coming to his rescue after an aggressive killer shark approached ...

A sperm whale got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope off the east coast of Skye. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said it was alerted to the incident at 13:00 on ...

Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally “taking” an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records in 2020. The ...

There are over 90 whale species. Some of the most famous whale species are humpback whales, sperm whales, blue whales and narwhals. Despite their name, killer whales — or orcas — are not whales.