Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict ...

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

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

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

Scientists have discovered that Humpback whale songs follow structured patterns similar to human language, revealing new ...

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

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

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...

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 ...