Whether there are any intelligent aliens out there in the cosmos waiting to talk with us remains to be seen, but there are certainly non-human intelligences right here on Earth. To date, we’ve had ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship ...

One of the best jokes in all of science fiction posits that dolphins are messing with us. In Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we learn, right before the Earth’s destruction that ...

Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...

Scientists are testing the limits of artificial intelligence when it comes to language learning. One recent challenge? Learning ... whale!... Sperm whale families ...

They live in multicultural, matriarchal societies. Their 18-pound brains have neocortexes and spindle cells for higher-order thinking, emotions, memory, language, and love. They could be the most ...

Selling more than 125,000 copies, the 1970 album “Songs of the Humpback Whale” is the bestselling nature recording of all time. Including tracks such as “Distant Whale” and “Three Whale Trip,” the ...

In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.

This is what it sounds like when sperm whales communicate. Those bursts of clicking noises are called codas. It's sounds a bit like Morse code. New research has found their system of communication is ...

Pituuu: if only we knew what it meant. Alexandra Morton has spent more than a quarter of a century trying to find out. But the author of the extraordinary memoir/science book/expose "Listening to ...

Mystery "quack-like" sounds detected in the ocean over 40 years may have been whales talking, suggests a new study. The noises were picked up in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand, in ...