Eleven identified humpback whales have been recorded blowing structured bubble rings directly at boats and swimmers during ...
Image Credit: Jodi Frediani. NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Research Permit 19703. December 12, 2023, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis ...
Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, mechanical taps. But we could be a step closer to understanding some of their ...
A lone beluga whale swims right up to the boat in northern Norway, acting unusually calm and almost eager for human attention ...
A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...
The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative. Scientific measurements using multiple methods have ...
Four sperm whales that stranded separately on southeastern U.S. coastlines between 2020–22 were emaciated and malnourished, with ingested fishing gear and marine debris found in two of them, according ...
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 ...