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 ...

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

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

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

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

The video of the whale had people rethinking how they see the animal with some vowing to never go in the ocean ...

During a survey, researchers got the chance to listen to a sea creature being a “soulful performer” off the coast of Hawaii.