The Grand Strand is home to an abundance of marine life from common animals like crabs and fish to more unusual sights like dolphins, manatees and even sharks. But cooler temperatures in November ...

Based on “stranding data,” information collected from stranded marine mammals, Rust says pygmy sperm whales are consistently present in South Carolina throughout the year. However, the 8-to-10-foot ...

Marine biologists are inching closer to understanding the ins and outs of sperm whale communication. But in order to decode what the cetaceans are saying, they must first need to find them and ...

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims to collect millions to billions of high-quality, highly contextualized vocalizations in order to understand how sperm whales communicate.

This is no easy feat, since sperm whales can dive over 10,000 feet andstay way below the surface for up to 60 minutes. Their habitats themselves stretch for thousands of miles.

Few people sight the cryptic creatures swimming in Monterey Bay, but sonorous sperm whales abound if you listen. The chatter of undersea creatures fills the soundscape, and the clicks of sperm ...

The animal, which the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society said could be a pygmy sperm whale or a dwarf sperm whale, was tracked down in waters off Southern district after it was first spotted ...

To find food in the dark, deep-diving whales, like sperm whales, pygmy sperm whales and goose-beaked whales, send out clicks and buzzes from a vocal cord-like structure near their blowholes.

Engineers at Harvard University have used drones and a ‘reinforcement learning network’ to predict where sperm whales will surface and listen in on their conversations. A pod of sperm whales ...

Tracking sperm whales is not easy because of their life patterns. Project CETI, which aims to decode their communication, relies on reinforcement learning. The novel framework described in the ...