Luck filled the air on a warm July day off the coast of Dominica in the Caribbean. Well, luck and some high-tech drones capturing the incredibly rare sight of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) being born. “I’ve been following sperm whale lives for 20 years, across thousands of hours, but have never been there when a whale was born,” Dr. Shane Gero, the biology lead for the whale research orga...