The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...

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

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

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

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

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...