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

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

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 ...

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

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

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

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

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

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

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

I only managed to get a good view after a month of tracking it. It’s been swimming around in the evening, creating chaos with ...

They plotted the frequency of sounds and word-like sequences—including ... and “ascending moan”—and realized that humpback whale songs also follow Zipf’s law. “I’ll never forget ...