Shutterstock Photo Sometimes predators give you an indication that they are sneaking up on you. It could the snapping of a twig behind you, or a low growl from the bushes. However, in California it is ...

Federal prosecutors are also recommending that the fisherman pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing for a ...

In the wild, several types of whales have been spotted sleeping horizontally, close to the surface. But sperm whales seem to ...

A whale spotted in Hong Kong waters was found to have several head injuries ... Dolphin Conservation Society said could be a pygmy sperm whale or a dwarf sperm whale, was tracked down in waters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A Duke graduate student led the research into whether ocean plastic trash -- which is routinely found in the guts of stranded ...

Suddenly, it dawned on him: They were the echolocation of not just one, but several endangered sperm whales hunting for prey in the area, and eventually honing in on an unlucky squid or shark. “ ...

As we approached the Farallones, a group of sea lions were hightailing it through the water. Pierson explained they were hurrying because they were on the edge of the “kill zone,” where a great white ...

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.