A recent expedition to study sperm whales has found that unrelated females assist a mother whale during calf birth in a rare ...

Unrelated animals worked with the mother and her relatives, marking the first known evidence of whales from multiple families ...

Two new studies from Project CETI provide the most detailed account of a sperm whale birth ever recorded, revealing ...

For a moment, biologist Shane Gero feared the worst—a brutal predator attack on a family of sperm whales he’d studied for ...

Science lovers got a treat recently when new research on sperm whales was quietly released. Researchers not only witnessed ...

Eleven sperm whales gathered near the surface off the coast of Dominica on the morning of July 8, 2023, and stayed there for ...

The ocean is a place of extremes. Pitch darkness, crushing pressure, and amid these lives creatures adapted to environments humans can barely fathom. Yet even among those extremes, sound plays a ...

The drone footage puts on display several behaviors: the whales are rolling, surfacing, opening their jaws, and circling back ...

The video taken in 2023 shows female whales from two family lines working together to support the labor during critical ...

Scientists captured a rare sperm whale birth and found strong teamwork, communication, and social bonds in action underwater.

Researchers say the sperm whale birth is among the first pieces of evidence of a non-primate animal participating in a ...

Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth has offered scientists a window into the behaviour of these large, elusive mammals ...