The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...