“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...
Whales make the news for lots of reasons: there’s international disagreements about whaling, research groups trying to decode whale language, and even some NSFW whale shenanigans happening in museums.
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In 1820, an 80-ton sperm whale rammed into and capsized the Essex, an American whaling vessel. The nightmarish tale reportedly inspired Herman Melville’s 1851 classic, Moby-Dick. And two centuries ...