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

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...

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

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

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