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

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

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

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

In a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted ...

Well, luck and some high-tech drones capturing the incredibly rare sight of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) being born ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers with Project CETI have ...

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

Scientists have managed to film a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have finally captured something long rumored but never proven: sperm whales headbutting each other. Using drone ...