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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

EXPLAINED: Why whales are making star wars sounds in aussie waters | Vintage Vibes

Researchers have turned to artificial intelligence to track whales rather than visual sightings. (Bob McPherson Photography/AAP PHOTOS)

More hardware, more software and more researchers are being deployed along Australia's east coast to track a growing whale migration season, and what they are finding is straight out of a movie.

Marine experts from Griffith University and Google are installing more underwater microphones off the Queensland coast this week, in an expansion of a whale-tracking project using artificial intelligence.

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