Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech ...

Our closest living ancestors descended from primates, but does this mean we don’t share any commonalities with other, non-primate species? A recent discovery is challenging the extent to which we are ...

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

Sperm whales and humans may have more in common than you may think, as scientists find our speech patterns are surprisingly ...

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

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

PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate.

Orca watching in the Salish Sea has been on my bucket list for just about my whole life, and since Port Townsend, Washington, ...