Lately, Fred Sharpe has been focusing on whale noises that can be heard at the surface. He says they're understudied compared ...

This gave rise to Project CETI (Cetacean Transition Initiative), a 50-plus person team of marine biologists, A.I. experts, ...

Denise Herzing, a dolphin communication expert, told Science News that she objects to the word “vowel” out of concern that ...

New research reveals vowel-like patterns inside sperm whale click messages, or codas, suggesting surprisingly rich ...

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

Y ou might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve ...

Ginkgo-toothed beaked whales have long remained a mystery, but a groundbreaking sighting may soon change that.

In a paper just published in Open Mind, a journal, a group of researchers with the Cetacean Translation Initiative ( CETI ), ...

Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

Whale expert Eduardo Mercado proposes a groundbreaking theory about what singing whales are actually doing and argues that they aren’t performing but rather exploring.

Scientists have decoded the language that whales use to communicate with each other in the ocean during social interactions ...