A whale headbutt has been caught on camera for the first time, 200 years after one of the mammals inspired the novel ...

Drone footage has revealed sperm whales headbutting each other—something scientists had only speculated about until now.

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

A team of researchers including Museum scientists published today the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale birth ever recorded. The two studies document an entire sperm whale unit—w ...

New research from the University of St Andrews reports sperm whales headbutting one another. The behavior was captured on ...

Marine scientists have filmed and scientifically described sperm whales headbutting each other for the first time – ...

Sperm whales, the deep-diving titans that inspired author Herman Melville, have now been filmed engaging in behaviour long ...

Ooh, yeah. I like it. LICHTMAN: The noise you're hearing comes from a blue whale; that's an animal that can reach 90 feet in length, which is longer than a tennis court. Biologist... JEREMY GOLDBOGEN: ...

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting down and eating great white sharks alive. A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them - ...

In 2023, researchers witnessed a rare event—a sperm whale being born. Their findings suggest a previously unknown level of ...