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

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

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

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 ...

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

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

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

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

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

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

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