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10 most powerful whales on the planet – are these the ocean’s smartest killers?

Cetaceans are among the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and many whales have used their big brains to develop cunning ...

Tapping into whale talk: Open-source bio-logger captures underwater cetacean conversations

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and ...
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Whale-SETI: Humpback Whale Encounter Reveals Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication

Brenda McCowan at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is working with researchers at the SETI Institute to study communication with humpback whales. (Mark Malleson/Getty Images) A team of ...
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Scientists have a ‘conversation’ with a humpback whale —which they hope will help mankind communicate with aliens

A group of scientists had a “conversation” with a humpback whale in Alaska — and they hope principles learned from it will someday help communicate with aliens. The team was assembled by the SETI ...
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For the first time, an orca was seen raising another whale species’ young

For the first time, a team of whale experts have recorded an orca caring for the offspring of another species, a long-finned pilot whale infant. With their iconic black and white markings, orcas ...