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

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

Off the coast of Dominica, a small Caribbean island nation, researchers have spent years lowering hydrophones into deep water ...

Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech ...

A new study found that the way sperm whales communicate is one of the animal communication systems most similar to how humans ...

Somewhere in the deep water off Dominica, a sperm whale surfaces after a foraging dive and fires off a rapid burst of clicks.

Sperm whales in the wild. Image via Wikipedia. A groundbreaking study has revealed that sperm whale “codas” (short sequences ...

Learn how analyzing “vowel-like” patterns in sperm whale clicks, uncovers one of the closest parallels to human language in ...