Scientists have managed to film a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other females worked together to support the mother and her newborn. A team from ...

The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near ...

An extremely rare interaction between a group of sperm whales has been captured on video. Footage shows a newborn sperm whale emerging at the surface of the Caribbean Sea, surrounded by a tight group ...

Groundbreaking research shows female relatives — both young and old — acting as "midwives" as a sperm whale gives birth. The most comprehensive footage of a sperm whale birth ever recorded has also ...

When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, ...

A group of sperm whales, including nonrelatives, work to keep a newborn calf afloat in the hours after its birth. (Project CETI) The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were ...