Seahorses are one of the only animals where the male carries the offspring and gives birth. Inside a specialized pouch, the male nurtures and protects developing embryos before going through a ...

Unrelated animals worked with the mother and her relatives, marking the first known evidence of whales from multiple families ...

The marine mammals act like midwives, supporting mothers and their calves through delivery. Sperm whales swim off the coast of Dominica, where, in July 2023, Project CETI scientists witnessed a rare ...

Two landmark studies of a rare sperm whale birth observation in the Caribbean are reshaping scientists’ understanding of cooperation in the animal kingdom, revealing that whales in unrelated family ...