A viral video claiming to show a whale calf nursing was confirmed as AI-generated, underscoring the challenge of wildlife misinformation. Meanwhile, researchers and volunteers are documenting alarming ...

Scientists have developed an AI-enabled underwater glider that can follow sperm whales by detecting and responding to their vocalizations in real time, allowing months-long, minimally invasive ...

The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near ...

ITHACA, N.Y. –Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers — offering a potentially ...

Garcia said right whales have been traditionally thought of as a conservation challenge in New England, but right whales are found all along the East Coast. "Using passive acoustic data and ...