May 1 (Reuters) - Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are ...

During the birth of a sperm whale in 2023, the whales allowed our team to remain in close proximity, a level of trust we believe is a direct result of our gentle methods. I feel tremendous empathy for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales—enormous, ocean-dwelling ...

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 ...

If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

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 ...

A team of scientists with Project Cetacean Translation Initiative published the most detailed record of a sperm whale birth last month, offering the first quantitative evidence that non-primates ...

A drone operator captured what he called a “rare” sighting of a sperm whale off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes in California. Mauricio Tassara of @empty_drone told Storyful the mammal was less than ...