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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...