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

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

For almost two decades the team has been using free-floating "sonobuoys" as "listening stations," to detect, track and record Antarctic blue whale and other whale sounds. Spending more than eight ...

During a survey, researchers got the chance to listen to a sea creature being a “soulful performer” off the coast of Hawaii.

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

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

Passive acoustic detection means supersensitive microphones floating around underwater, listening for whale sounds. Similar technology is used extensively in the north, but the shallower water off ...

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