Their findings clearly indicate an inordinate amount of vocal fry criticism is directed towards women. At the same time, the ...

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A montage shows pictures of Kim Kardashian and an orca. Scientists have found that toothed whales can produce a vocal fry, just like Kardashian.Ronald Martinez/Getty Images; iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

Scientists have confirmed that toothed whales use vocal registers to produce a variety of sounds – something previously confirmed only in humans and crows. Vocal fry - you know, that low, creaky voice ...

Scan of a porpoise head showing the phonic lips, which help produce echolocation clicks, and the round, fatty melon that conducts sound into the water Christian B. Christensen, Aarhus University Vocal ...

Macquarie University researchers have found social perceptions, not speech patterns, may explain why vocal fry is more often ...

Scientists have confirmed that toothed whales have a vocal register and can produce a variety of sounds –- something previously confirmed only in humans and crows. Vocal fry is that low, creaky voice ...

Vocal fry - you know, that low, creaky voice sound that a lot of people use? Well, new research in the journal Science now shows that the same type of vocal fry is what allows certain kinds of whales ...