Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

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

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

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

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

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

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures ... Typically, kilowatts are quiet when they're searching for prey because sound travels incredibly well in water. And so they could alert ...

A Teledyne G3 Slocum Glider tries to detect whale sounds off the coast of Georgia ... contact with colleagues in a small plane — all scanning the water for whales and, hopefully, newborn ...

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 ...