David Gruber began his almost impossibly varied career studying bluestriped grunt fish off the coast of Belize. He was an undergraduate, and his job was to track the fish at night. He navigated by the ...

Whales are highly intelligent, social creatures, so it makes sense that their songs and clicks are probably more than just random sounds. But just how complex is whale speak? Researchers from Project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a whale's tail as it goes into the water “You feel alien out there,” Friedlaender tells Popular Science. “And yet, the whale ...

In an unprecedented scientific feat, researchers have bridged the gap between humans and humpback whales, achieving a 20-minute interaction that could reshape our understanding of animal intelligence.

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

Forget the cartoon dog collars and sci-fi translators. The real science of understanding animal communication is advancing faster than most people realize, and AI is the driving force behind the shift ...

The idea of a device that decodes animal sounds — turning squeaks, clicks and meows into human language — has been a staple of science fiction for decades, popping up in everything from Pixar’s Up to ...