Big news for anyone hoping to one day talk to a whale, and it arrives at the same as another groundbreaking study into whale song that used methods normally used to study human infants.

Whale song exhibits systematic structure. However, until now, there was little evidence that this structure was like that of human language. One of the big challenges in studying non-human ...

Ocean-bottom seismology stations are designed to monitor earthquakes, and often pick up whale songs. Researchers have previously used these incidental recordings to track fin whale movements, but this ...

Baleen whales communicate with each other across the expanse of the ocean by singing. Some songs — like those of gray whales and humpbacks — are elaborate and higher-pitched. These songs are within ...