Researchers captured the first-ever drone footage of sperm whales headbutting, confirming sailors’ long-held claims.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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