(Reuters) - The various species of whales inhabiting Earth's oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of ...

Quick Take The sperm whale was designated Connecticut’s official state animal in 1975 to honor a 19th-century whaling empire ...

A sperm whale swims off the coast of Dominica in March 2024. In a study published Tuesday, May 7, in the journal Nature Communications, scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

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) ...

"Little by little, the sperm whales are divulging their secrets of how they're communicating to us," one expert says. Any scientist will tell you that sperm whales are long-lived, highly intelligent, ...

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Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language. Credit...Amanda Cotton Supported by By Carl Zimmer Ever ...

Sperm whales have a lot to say. The animals spend much of their lives in darkness, searching the ocean's depths for giant squid. So sound rules their world, especially in their tight-knit family ...

Permit-based, small-group expeditions in Dominica offer ethical swimming with sperm whales, redefining whale watching in the Caribbean. NY, UNITED STATES, January 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — One With ...

Those in the Savannah area were part of a unique but tragic scene. A sperm whale was beached on the shore of Hilton Head Island over the weekend. Why did this happen and what do we know? What happened ...

The whales quickly learned how to avoid humans. New research is shedding light on the social intelligence of marine mammals when under a threat of danger. Sperm whales, which were hunted heavily in ...