Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

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

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

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

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

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

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

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 a long time, language has been viewed as a uniquely human trait, with features that set us apart from how other species ...

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

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.