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 ...

Giving birth is a family affair - for whales, reveals new research.Ground-breaking video shows female relatives - both young and old - acting as 'midwives' as a sperm whale gives birth. The most ...

“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 ...

On July 8, 2023, whale biologist Shane Gero was on a boat off the coast of Dominica when he realized something “strange” was going on. A group of sperm whales known as “Unit A” that he and his ...

ONLINE EMBARGO 18.00 GMT, 26/03/26 Giving birth is a family affair - for whales, reveals new research.Ground-breaking video shows female relatives - both young and old - acting as 'midwives' as a ...

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 ...