The 14 right whale mothers seen with their newborns have included Slalom, Juno, Mantis, Boomerang, Tripelago, Binary, Skittle ...

The 2026 North Atlantic right whale calving season produced 23 calves, the highest number since 2009, raising cautious optimism for the critically endangered species. Researchers noted shorter ...

Aerial survey teams from Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas conducted regular flights to observe the calving grounds ...

The recent right whale calving season has produced 23 births, the highest number for the species in 17 years.

It has been a good year for the North Atlantic right whale, according to scientists at the New England Aquarium. The calving season, lasting from mid-November until mid-April in the Southeast, ...

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 ...

The last scientific record of a sperm whale birth dates back to 1986 — and that account included only written observations. Now, a team of researchers has captured one of the most detailed wild sperm ...

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 ...

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 gave birth, then ...

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 ...