To understand sperm whale sound, she had to first establish how the whales use their clicks to find squid. Unlike fish, squid don’t have swim bladders, those hard, air-filled structures that ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are beginning to follow ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...

If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...

Scientists from Project CETI have developed an AI-enabled underwater glider that can autonomously track sperm whale vocalizations in real time for potentially months without disturbing the animals.

“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 ...