According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...

A groundbreaking study led by Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a new dimension of sperm whale communication, revealing spectral ...

You 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 ...

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

There are approximately 7,000 human languages spoken worldwide. In every one of them, we have expressions for pain, joy, and ...

An interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal emotional expressions by comparing expressive interjections, such as 'wow,' to nonlinguistic vocalizations, such as screams and cries, ...

Exactly what the whales may be saying to each other remains unknown—although working that out is CETI’s eventual goal.