Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

While paddling in what appeared to be an inflatable kayak, Simancas was suddenly engulfed by a humpback whale as it surfaced ...

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

It is the peak of whale watching season in Hawaii and a West Maui boat captain does not want fire survivors to miss out.

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

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

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...

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

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Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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 ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...