A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm whale this week, but one whale expert says the ...

Whalers pursued sperm whales for the rich oil in their oversized heads. Now biologists are on the tail of these deep-diving, long-lived, sociable and mysterious sea creatures. Gerard Soury ...

"We could not confirm its size, but it doesn't look like a calf or juvenile. It looks more like an adult or sub-adult." ...

The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...

An estimated 1.5 million sperm whales existed in the 1700s, before humans began hunting them for their oil, which was used for candles and lubricating machinery. Those numbers bottomed out around the ...

For the next century and a half, Nantucketers will specialize in hunting sperm whales. Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships ...