David Attenborough’s nature documentaries have captured some first-time animal behaviours over the years on film – here are ...

AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.

Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last ...

Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language. A sperm whale is seen socializing with its pod near Dominica, where scientists have been studying how the ...