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

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

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

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

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 wond ...