On a special episode (first released on June 6, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: These gentle giants of the ocean have long been a source of fascination for us humans. And while researchers have made ...

Whale families communicate a lot underwater. So now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to try to figure out what they're saying. Artificial intelligence is making big gains in ...

Light shines on a sperm whale swimming off the coast of Dominica in March. In a study published May 7 in the journal Nature Communications, scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the ...

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 ...

The various species of whales inhabiting Earth’s oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking ...