The paper on the findings, published yesterday in Marine Mammal Science, is the first systematic documentation of headbutting ...

Dick! Sperm whales filmed headbutting for first time to validate classic novel. Scientists have filmed sperm whales ...

Learn how drone footage captured sperm whales head-butting for the first time, offering new insight into their behavior and ...

Researchers have captured extraordinary footage of sperm whales randomly headbutting each other, confirming anecdotal reports from mariners and whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Historic accounts dating back two centuries detail ships rammed and sunk by sperm whales, now scientists claim to have filmed ...

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

A necropsy revealed what was behind the whale's failing health: an 11-inch plastic bag lodged in its stomach, along with a ...

The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found ...

Scientists studying stranded pygmy sperm whales have uncovered three previously unknown genotypes of Helicobacter bacteria ...