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

The eye of a sperm whale. (Mike Korostelev/Moment/Getty Images) The staccato clicks of sperm whales may sound like ...

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

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

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

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