Sperm whales are famous for their loud vocalizations, which usually resemble clicks or even codas, and scientists have been trying to understand them for decades. New research has now revealed another ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Sperm whales are loud. One particular sound they make is considered one of the loudest mammal-made communication sounds on Earth. Why they make this particular sound isn’t fully understood, but one ...

Sperm whales' click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

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 ...

Learn how analyzing “vowel-like” patterns in sperm whale clicks, uncovers one of the closest parallels to human language in the animal kingdom. Humans like to think we sit at the top of the ...

A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...