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

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 ...

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

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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 ...

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

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.

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...