Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sperm whale clicks may contain vowel-like patterns that closely parallel human speech structure. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The sound ...

Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very ...

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. If you had to try to ...

Pakistan, May 1 -- Scientists have developed an autonomous underwater robot that tracks sperm whale conversations in real ...

Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language. A sperm whale is seen socializing with its pod near Dominica, where scientists have been studying how the ...

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...