“Whaling was the oil industry of its day,” says Hal Whitehead, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an expert on sperm whale behavior. “Oil from the sperm whale quite literally ...

Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...

Project CETI is harnessing AI to understand the complex communication system of sperm whales. In a new study, the project's scientists used AI to decode thousands of sperm whale clicks. CETI founder ...

A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...

(CNN) — Scientists have accomplished a whale of a feat. They’ve identified previously unknown complexity in whale communication by analyzing thousands of recorded sequences of sperm whale clicks with ...

Sperm whales are highly intelligent mammals with large brains. I always thought the original research claiming only ~20 codas was selling the whales short. They live in socially complex, ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and ...

A Ketchikan fisherman has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an endangered sperm whale in a first-of-its-kind case that highlights a long, little known conflict between the giant toothed ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This past weekend, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles (MMCC) responded to a call on a rare pygmy sperm whale struggling in the surf at Dockweiler State Beach in ...