Using machine learning, MIT CSAIL, and Project CETI, researchers revealed complex, language-like structures in sperm whale communication with context-sensitive and combinatorial elements. Credit: Amanda Cotton The allure of whales has stoked human consciousness for millennia, casting these ocean giants as enigmatic residents of the deep seas. From the biblical Leviathan to Herman Melville's formidable Moby Dick, whales have been central to mythologies and folklore. And while cetology, or whale s...