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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

It's not exactly karaoke. These whale songs have been a source of fascination for decades. Professor Coen Elemans from the University of Southern Denmark is among a group of scientists who have ...