Cantor and Whitehead used an underwater microphone to listen to the sperm whales' clicking sounds, and located differing codas. “Our findings show that biased social learning is a required ...

Read more about sperm whales: http://j.mp/sOSais Watch underwater footage of the mammal and hear its strange clicking sounds that are crucial to their survival What ...

As explained by SciTechDaily, researchers Héctor Pérez-Puig and Alejandro Arias Del Razo conducted a study for the journal PeerJ Life and Environment that examined the significant departure of sperm ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

It takes a day for Hori Parata (Ngātiwai) to dissect a whale. His tipuna have been doing this work for some 15 generations, and now his son does too. “We’re doing it because it’s a retrieval of ...

It involves a cocktail of chemicals acting as an 'artificial sperm' to trick a human egg into forming an embryo. The stunning discovery has alarmed medical ethics campaigners, who described it as ...