Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...

On a special episode (first released on June 6, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: These gentle giants of the ocean have long been a source of fascination for us humans. And while researchers have made ...

Dolphins whistle, humpback whales sing and sperm whales click. Now, a new analysis of sperm whale codas — a unique series of clicks — suggests a previously unrecognized acoustic pattern. The finding, ...

Sunlight shines on a sperm whale swimming off the coast of Dominica in March. In a study published this month in the journal Nature Communications, scientists described for the first time the basic ...

Listening to our animal kin — some experts predict that the capacity and technology to understand and talk back to non-human ...