Quick facts about whales. Where they live: In oceans around the world What they eat: A huge range of animals, from tiny plankton to giant squid How big they are: Between 7 and 100 feet (2 to 30 ...

A man paddleboarding with his friends is shocked to see a squid wrapping its tentacles around his paddleboard and pulling him ...

But exactly how sperm whales catch squid, like many other areas of their lives, remains a mystery. "They're slow swimmers," says Kirsten Young, a marine scientist at the University of Exeter.Squid ...

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, ...

Conversely, juvenile colossal squid are frequently targeted by elephant seals and penguins while adults often fall prey to sleeper sharks and sperm whales. Although the scars on the latter ...

Elaborate scar-like markings on the back of a whale seen in Australian waters last week have intrigued experts, with one authority on marine mammals saying: “I've never seen anything like this ...

If the whales decided to change course, or to dive, then that was just bad luck. If there were to be encounters, these would be entirely on the whales’ terms. So we expected, at best, a few precious ...

The colossal squid, in turn, has left behind scars from its suckered-and-hooked tentacles on sperm whales that it has tried to fend off, Bolstad said. Advertisement ...

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. ... crustaceans, fish, squid, sea birds and even fellow whale species. A whale's diet varies by species.

Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish, squid, octopus, seabirds, seals, penguins, sharks, and even other whales and dolphins. Sperm whales dive up to 3,000 feet (900 m ...