Like a group of scheming teens shifting their conversation when a teacher walks by, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) ...

For sperm whales to live well, they must be heard. Whether diving to forage or chatting at the surface, orsupporting each ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or a coda. But sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up v ...

Roger Payne’s recordings of humpback whale songs helped inspire the Save the Whales movement and a global ban on commercial whaling. Now, scientists are using AI to decode the clicks of sperm whales, ...

Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close ...

Thousands of recordings of sperm whale communications in the Mediterranean Sea reveal that the population might be splitting into two groups with their own dialects.