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

Whalers pursued sperm whales for the rich oil in their oversized heads. Now biologists are on the tail of these deep-diving, long-lived, sociable and mysterious sea creatures. Gerard Soury / Oxford ...

A research team working the summer of 2023 off the coast of Dominica when they made the "impossibly rare" observation of a ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newborn sperm whale in this photograph taken July 2023 off the coast of Dominica, in this photo released on March 26, 2026.

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

Ten whales helped a mama sperm whale give birth—giving us a glimpse into whale culture and why animals help each other out.

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

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Quick Take Sperm whales are social animals with matriarchal social structures.