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 ...

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

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

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

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

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of ...

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