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

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...

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

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

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

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

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

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

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

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

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