Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Amelia Macapia: Let’s start with whale culture. This isn’t a figure of speech but rather an observation that whales communicate.

Both at the New England Aquarium in Boston and at the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Yarmouth, North Atlantic right whales are being studied in order to help further protect them. Scientist ...

As the 100-foot long whale watch vessel, "Acadia Explorer," idles at the dock in Bar Harbor on this day in late July, passenger Sarah Leiter with the Maine Department of Marine Resources opens her ...

A 50-foot-long sperm whale that died after it was stranded on a sandbar off a Venice beach is winched to shore so a necropsy can be conducted. State wildlife and local law enforcement officials ...

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Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which were published ...