Their unique dispatches could have something to teach scientists about making contact with alien intelligence.

Humpback whales are able to see and visually process large, simple shapes as long as they are perceived from a distance. This ...

By measuring a humpback whale eye specimen, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Duke University researchers found ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, ...

Researchers measuring the dissected humpback whale eye. Michael Spencer/UNCW “[A low CPD] is bad for a human, but not bad for a whale at all,” says Thomas Cronin, a visual ecologist at the ...

In their study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group dissected and tested the left eye of a humpback whale. After cutting open the eye of the juvenile whale ...