If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...

Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very ...