Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists say they discovered that two well-known types of killer whales in the North Pacific Ocean are actually two separate ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two different populations of killer whales that live in the North Pacific are now thought to be different species, a new study published by the Royal Society shows. Phil Morin, ...

Enormous sperm whales have been caught on camera hanging motionless and perfectly vertical just beneath the ocean's surface, and the reason they can hold that position without drifting away turns out ...

Sperm whale sounds are 'one of the closest parallels' in the animal kingdom to human language, a new study found. While humpbacks sing hypnotic songs, sperm whales communicate through rhythmic clicks ...

As researchers started sorting through decades of photos of whales from Australia and South America, they were hoping to learn more about migration patterns and population health. But they weren’t ...

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between ...

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 ...

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales. The whales are around 52 feet long, and sperm whales can be found anywhere in the open ocean. Sperm whales live in very ...

The various species of whales inhabiting Earth’s oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking ...

Scientists say they discovered that two well-known types of killer whales in the North Pacific Ocean are actually two separate species and not just different races. In a study published Wednesday, ...