A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers with Project CETI have worked to decode the communication of the species. Tony Wu, Nature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are ...

Sperm whales have a lot to say. The animals spend much of their lives in darkness, searching the ocean's depths for giant squid. So sound rules their world, especially in their tight-knit family ...

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, ...

For years, scientists have listened to the clicks of sperm whales and wondered what they were saying. While previous research scratched the surface of understanding, a new study — published May 7 in ...

Few people sight the cryptic creatures swimming in Monterey Bay, but sonorous sperm whales abound if you listen. The chatter of undersea creatures fills the soundscape, and the clicks of sperm whales ...

MONTEREY – Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface, the planet’s largest-toothed predator hunts for prey, which could include a giant squid or even a shark. Since the deep ocean is dark, the ...

Biologists now believe that the sperm whale’s massive head functions like a powerful telegraph machine, emitting pulses of sound in distinct patterns. At the front of the head are the spermaceti organ ...

Artificial intelligence is making big gains in understanding human language, but here's a challenge for machine learning - understand the language of whale. And an AI has accepted the challenge. In a ...