Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

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Quick Take Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales and deep-diving predators, with a spermaceti organ used for sound ...

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One hundred years after its discovery, one of the largest, most elusive mollusks has been filmed alive in its natural environment for the first time. On a recent expedition near the Antarctic South ...

There are plenty more squid in the sea for Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales. How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) living off Hawai‘i need each day, and is the ...

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A one-foot-long juvenile squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented because the mysterious creatures are so difficult to capture on camera ...