The research relies on a generative adversarial network, an AI system that learned to recognize real whale codas while ...

Humpback whales are known to sing, though researchers have yet to identify the exact reason why Sound is a vital form of communication for all species, and humpback whales are no different. According ...

Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales. Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at ...

Culture, and the sharing of it across disconnected populations, is often thought of as a purely human trait. However, each time we attempt to draw a hard line between humans and the rest of the animal ...

Musical crazes occasionally sweep through the deep blue sea, as surely as they sweep through the world of teenagers. Male humpback whales readily learn and "sing" radically new songs from other whales ...

“Whale Song,” a new public art installation created by French artist Jean-Marie Appriou to demonstrate the historical and mythological significance of whales, premiered at Boston’s Central Wharf Park ...

Scientists in Hawaii study the purpose of humpback whale song. Each winter, a population of humpback whales migrates to its breeding grounds in the Hawaiian Islands. It is here that male humpbacks ...

For more than three decades, Paul Knapp Jr. has taken travelers out into the Caribbean Sea to hear humpback whales. Now seismic blasts threaten to silence their songs. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

The aquatic mammals’ sound waves penetrate into the rocks under the waves, which could assist seismologists’ surveys. By Robin George Andrews In 2019, Václav Kuna, a seismologist, was perusing ...