Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have led efforts to keep the whale comfortable.

Officials completed Tuesday a necropsy and preliminary analysis on the carcass of a juvenile male sperm whale that stranded ...

A crew of 25 people performed a necropsy on the animal Monday, after it had been euthanized, to probe deeper into why it ...

Officials said the whale, identified as a juvenile sperm whale, had "a peaceful and humane passing after a long journey." ...

A sperm whale that washed ashore on Hilton Head Island on Sunday has been euthanized and will be buried. The juvenile whale was severely emaciated.

A sperm whale that washed ashore on Hilton Head Island on Sunday has been euthanized. According to Hilton Head Island’s ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) – A whale beached itself Saturday evening on Hilton Head near the Ocean Oaks Resort on South Forest Beach. Julia Mariotte Julia Mariotte Julia Mariotte Julia Mariotte ...

A rarely seen species of whale became stranded alive on a North Carolina island, only to perish before help could arrive, ...

A live Pygmy sperm whale calf was found stranded on Emerald Isle last week and later died. The NC State Center for Marine ...

A new technique to identify sperm whales using aerial photographs has been developed by a Galway-based PhD student Seán O’Callaghan. The Atlantic Technological University (ATU) student from Killarney, ...

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 ...

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of ...