“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...

March 26 (Reuters) - When a mother sperm whale gives birth, it is a remarkable team effort. Marine biologists have documented how multiple adult female sperm whales surrounded the mother as the whale ...

Eleven sperm whales gathered near the surface off the coast of Dominica on the morning of July 8, 2023, and stayed there for hours. That alone was unusual. What researchers watching from a drone above ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth has offered scientists a window into the behavior of these large, elusive mammals. The video taken in 2023 shows female whales from two ...

Scientists recently published the first footage of a sperm whale birth, and it was a crowded ordeal. More than 10 other sperm whales were there for the delivery and helped keep the baby whale ...

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 ...

A full-day whale watching tour off Whidbey Island ended with a rare and unexpected sighting: a brand-new Bigg’s killer whale ...