If gray whales could share stories about their migration from Arctic waters to Mexico and back, they’d probably have us on the edge of our seats. But we can learn a lot from the scars on their ...

In March 2015, I had encountered a gray whale mom that had exactly the same type of mysterious markings trailing all over her body (plus prop scars and killer whale tooth rakes) off Point Vicente ...

Some squid are large enough to fight back: Sperm whales have been found with suction scars on their skin. But most squid species make easy pickings for the whales that hunt them.

In a baffling show of generosity, killer whales across the globe are giving fish to humans—and scientists are racing to ...

But a scar left on an animal can change over time as the animal gets bigger, explains Mike Vecchione, ... When sperm whales and squid do tangle, though, ...

Like squid and octopuses, dwarf sperm whales can produce a dark, ink-like substance to confuse, and even blind, potential predators and other threats—such as the seal in this instance.

The largest predators in the world, sperm whales, have a voracious appetite for jumbo squid, themselves a fearsome carnivore called "red devils" by fishermen. Yet how sperm whales hunt jumbo squid ...

Very deep. Sometimes to depths of 1,000 feet below the surface. Researchers believe one of the reasons they do this is to forage for food, including smaller squid. They’ve even been observed following ...

Juliette Dumas’s large-scale paintings of whales’ flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality. by Peter Malone April 16, 2018 November 27, 2024 ...

A humpback, a gray whale, a sperm whale fighting a squid and an orca have come to life on the newly re-created Whale Walk at Doheny State Beach. On Saturday, March 9, Jim Serpa, a former ...