Whales are known for their eerie undersea songs, but now experts say those melodic tones are far more complex than previously believed. Researchers were able to decipher hidden- language like ...

The humpback whales' song is probably the most complex in the animal kingdom. The range of frequencies that whales use are from 30 Hertz (Hz) to about 8,000 Hz. Researchers believe that some of ...

Whale songs have features of language, ... Mockingbird songs “It’s funny how people always want to compare animal communication to language—it is sexy, and it helps to sell papers.

Eerie and fascinating, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds reverberating through the ocean. Now, researachers say they know how the leviathans vocalize.

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in&nbsp ...

Humpback whale song. Baleen whales are a group of 14 species, including the blue, humpback, right, minke and gray whale. Instead of teeth, the animals have plates of what is called baleen, ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of St Andrews, revealed a previously undetected “language-like ...

Dr. Gero was startled that Ms. Sharma could see something in sperm whale songs that he and his colleagues had missed for years. “It was a way we hadn’t looked at it,” he said.