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

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

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...

Somewhere in the deep waters off Dominica, a female sperm whale fires a rapid burst of clicks toward her companions. The ...

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

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

Sperm whales are not alone in showing advanced communication. Dolphins, for example, use signature whistles that function ...

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

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 ...