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

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Sperm whales communicate in a series of short clicks called codas. Analysis of these clicks shows that the whales can ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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