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

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

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

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

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

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

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

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 ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

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