Scientists Are Using AI to Decode Whale Language

When you dive into the ocean, the physiology of your body changes. As you go deeper into the water, your heart rate slows. In an environment that is seemingly hostile to its survival, the body becomes remarkably efficient at keeping you alive. The mammalian dive reflex, more romantically termed the "Master Switch of Life" by its discoverer, the physiologist Per Scholander, helped shape how we view our relationship to the water. If our bodies were so at home in the ocean, scientists wondered, what did that say about our evolutionary history?