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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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

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