The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...

According to researchers with Project CETI, a US non-profit working to understand sperm whales, the clicks known as "codas" ...

When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...

Project CETI, you may recall, is the same group that recently released footage showing adult sperm whales collaborating as ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...

CETI’s previous scientific findings, aided by artificial intelligence, have already revealed a strikingly intricate system of ...

Somewhere in the deep waters off Dominica, a female sperm whale fires a rapid burst of clicks toward her companions. The ...

Sperm whales have been talking to each other in patterns that look surprisingly familiar. 🐾 SIGN UP to get “pawsitivity” ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a vital mode of communication in the ocean environment, especially over long distances," said William Oestreich, a ...