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

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

On the surface, [these vocalizations] sound like this alien, ocean intelligence that has nothing to do with us,” says lead ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Zipf’s Law states that the most common word in any language appears twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, ten times as often as the tenth. It is constant ...

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 ...