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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, off the coast of Central California, a mysterious clicking sound punctuated the silence of the deep sea. The peculiar noise was picked up by a ...

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Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...