Lately, Fred Sharpe has been focusing on whale noises that can be heard at the surface. He says they're understudied compared ...

WHALES ALONG THEIR ENTIRE TRIP. SINCE JANUARY. THE SONG OF THE WHALE SAILBOAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING RIGHT WHALES AS THEY MIGRATE NORTH ALONG THE EAST COAST. ITS CREW NOT ONLY WATCHING THE WHALES, BUT ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa first went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may ...

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like ...

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New research reveals vowel-like patterns inside sperm whale click messages, or codas, suggesting surprisingly rich ...

The algorithm has been trained to pick out whales’ Californian dialects among all the other sounds in the ocean. The algorithm has been trained to pick out whales’ Californian dialects among all the ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using machine learning to research sperm whale communication habits -- and they're learning unprecedented things. Their new study, ...

Scientists are testing the limits of artificial intelligence when it comes to language learning. One recent challenge? Learning ... whale!... Sperm whale families ...

Editor's note: This story was original published in July 2022. We've updated with news of Roger Payne's death. The man behind the iconic album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" has died. Click the red ...