“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 ...

Sperm whales communicate more clearly than scientists ever believed, according to new research that looks into years of recordings of whale language. They “communicate by squeezing air through their ...

(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 ...

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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, ...

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, ...

(CNN) – Scientists said they have discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in whale calls, identifying a previously unknown complexity in whale communication. Researchers used artificial intelligence to ...

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