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

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

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

The footage gives credit to the stories that inspired the novel Moby Dick—while also calling one aspect of the book into ...

The last scientific record of a sperm whale birth dates back to 1986 — and that account included only written observations.

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

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

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

A discovery of unique killer whale behavior may be the first documented time a marine species has been seen using and creating tools for something not food-related. The finding was made in Washington ...

New Video Evidence Shows Sperm Whales Headbutt ...

A new study has investigated hundreds of videos and images taken by the public, tourism operators and scientists to better understand a rarely studied behavior among whales and dolphins—do they ...

UPDATE: As of 6 p.m. Friday, Cascadia Research and WDFW, with assistance from members of the Chinook and Shoalwater Bay ...