The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...

According to researchers with Project CETI, a US non-profit working to understand sperm whales, the clicks known as "codas" ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a vital mode of communication in the ocean environment, especially over long distances," said William Oestreich, a ...

All human languages follow the same pattern: The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, four times as often as the ...

When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...