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

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 ...

“Sounds that commonly co-occur are probably ... “It begs asking if they are simply biological laws?” (Not all whale sing. Read up on some common whale misconceptions.) Another study ...

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

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

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 ...

Humans can't hear all whale sounds - humans can only hear part of whale songs because we can't hear the lower frequencies. Whales also use their tails and fins to make loud slapping noises on the ...

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

This is the case with Kerr Thomson’s adventure, The Sound Of Whales. The story takes place on Nin, a remote island off the north coast of Scotland, where the islanders make their living from the ...

Once all the songs had been encoded ... The other striking discovery is that the most common whale sounds tend to be short, just as the most common human words are – a rule known Zipf’s ...

Pelagos and FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology- Hellas), the project’s second scientific partner, collected data on sperm whale sightings and movements to have a better understanding of ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The English language is full of ...