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

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 ...

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

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, ...

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