And the scientists found that baleen whales use airflow to vibrate tissue and produce sound very similar to how we humans do it. ELEMANS: What's very different is the location and the structures ...

These vocalizations, called “identity codas,” are unique sequences of Morse code-like clicking sounds that function as symbolic markers of different social groups and are indicative of whale ...

And we put those sounds together to make words. So now, we have sperm whales, which have at least 150 of these different versions of sounds that they make just by making little adjustments to the ...

All whales rely heavily on sound to understand information about the world around them. Researchers at the Smithsonian Museum created detailed 3-D images of 56 whale fetuses from 15 different species ...

Now, researchers have uncovered how structures in the nose, called phonic lips, allow toothed whales to produce sounds at different registers, similar to the way the human voice functions ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Infrasound refers to sound waves with frequencies ... Some researchers believe whales may even use the way infrasound travels through different layers of water to map out migration routes.

But this whale is different. It is a male and vocalizes during ... it is dominated by sound. Most famous of all those sounds are the melodic “songs” of humpback whales, which, after being ...

“The physical distribution of words or sounds in language is a really fascinating feature, but there's a million other things ...

When it's pressurized, and flow stops, sound stops,” says Joy Reidenberg ... She’d like to see a different family of whales examined for comparison, as the three individuals studied were ...

You can learn more about acoustic monitoring devices and listen to whale sounds from different species at robots4whales.whoi.edu. Deep in the ocean, up and down the eastern seaboard, the sounds of ...