Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

"She thinks she's still trapped in captivity!" Lionsgate has debuted an official trailer for a very dumb new horror movie called Killer Whale, an Orca spin on the usual shark movie with all the same ...

In many ways, the deep ocean feels like an entirely different planet from the one we live on—home to some of Earth’s most extraordinary creatures, two of the most evocative being the largest toothed ...

Scientists have revealed how much squid Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales must harvest from the deep each day, using high-tech tags to track their demanding foraging behavior. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Zack Snyder chose not to include the alien squid attack from the Watchmen comic book series. Both the comic and Snyder’s movie showed Ozymandias’s plan of an attack that would kill millions in order ...

Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers ...

Short-finned pilot whales consume between 82 and 202 of the marine molluscs each every day off the coast of Hawai’i, according to the study. An international research team - made up of scientists from ...

An adult pilot whale needs about 142 squid a day to meet its energy requirements, according to a new University of Hawaii study. Hawaii’s population of pilot whales is unique because they do not ...