Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

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

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

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