“Sperm whales live in an environment totally different from ours, one with completely different constraints. Where we are visual, they see the world through sound—both the sounds they hear and ...

Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.

For sperm whales, bursts of clicks known as a codas come in different varieties and form the building blocks of speech, just as human language emerges from the different vocal sounds we combine to ...

A recent study by Stony Brook University postdoctoral fellow Mason Youngblood revealed the complex efficiency of whale ...

These sounds are transmitted to the surrounding water by ... which spans the range of 'clicks' that different species of deep-diving whales employ. For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) ...