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

Sperm whales have always fascinated researchers for their diving prowess and the complicated nature of their vocalisations.

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 ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --For the last five years, an underwater microphone deployed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, positioned on the Monterey Bay seafloor, several hundred feet beneath the ...

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 ...