This is what it sounds like when sperm whales communicate. Those bursts of clicking noises are called codas. It's sounds a bit like Morse code. New research has found their system of communication is ...

The various species of whales inhabiting Earth's oceans employ different types of vocalisations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking ...

Scientists using artificial intelligence to decode the sounds made by sperm whales believe their calls are so complex they are similar to human language. New research by a group of experts studying a ...

Well scientists think they might be one step closer to discovering just that. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying a clan of sperm whales in the East Caribbean, found the ...

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Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' The various species of whales inhabiting Earth's oceans employ different types of vocalisation to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest ...