Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship ...

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Amelia Macapia: Let’s start with whale culture. This isn’t a figure of speech but rather an observation that whales communicate.

For a decade, Woodend, 39, crisscrossed the state with live animals in tow, introducing communities to the wildlife right in ...

As the 100-foot long whale watch vessel, "Acadia Explorer," idles at the dock in Bar Harbor on this day in late July, passenger Sarah Leiter with the Maine Department of Marine Resources opens her ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which were published ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Whale Mobile, a life-size 40-foot inflatable whale, made a visit to RCSD School No. 34 on Thursday. Students got an immersive experience where they could see the sheer scale of ...

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 ...

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Researchers from an organization that seeks out extraterrestrial life camped out at a remote lighthouse in Southeast Alaska for the better part of the summer, but they weren’t out there looking for ...