The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

In the introduction of the book, you write about how the collection is animated by “irony”: As you note, biologist E.O.

After being euthanized Sunday evening, the beached whale that washed up on Hilton Head Island is pulled by its tail to the spot where a necropsy can be performed. Town of Hilton Head Facebook After ...

HILTON HEAD — The death investigation of a whale beached in May found that starvation caused the mammal’s demise. The 31-foot, 20-ton sperm whale was found May 3 on the coast of Hilton Head Island.

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

A male sperm whale can grow to weigh as much as 45 tons, and that's a lot for a creature of this world. The female of the same species, however, is three times lighter, and would be a perfect fit (in ...

After months of analysis, scientists have confirmed the beached sperm whale that washed up on a Hilton Head beach died of starvation. The ultimate reason the whale starved remains an open question, ...

View the solar eclipse in a historic Spanish city. Immerse yourself in one of the oldest living cultures in an Australian national park. Visit the world's first sperm whale reserve in an underrated ...

National Geographic's top destinations annual list is back for "Best of the World 2026." Twenty-five locations, from all around the world, have been selected as the top picks for the most unique ...

Discover how whale mothers feed their calves beneath the ocean’s surface with rich milk that doesn’t dissolve in seawater.

Recent POV footage from a study done by marine biologists at Griffith University offers a peek into the strange, ...