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

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

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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