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

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

Blue Whale songs consist of an A call, a series of pulses, followed by a long, low moan called the B call. This A-B sequence is repeated over and over again, approximately once every 130 seconds.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...