Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. Can you imagine slipping quietly into the ocean near the Caribbean ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

This documentary explores the extraordinary story of Leviathan melvillei, one of the most powerful predators ever to inhabit ...

An extraordinary discovery was made at the Valencina Copper Age mega-site in southwest Spain, which has captured the attention of a team of Spanish researchers—a rare sperm whale tooth uncovered in ...

Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, mechanical taps. But we could be a step closer to understanding some of their ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

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Guests on a whale watching tour off Dana Point on Sunday were treated to an exceptionally rare sight after a sperm whale surfaced offshore. The sighting happened during a search for what was ...