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

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

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

A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words ...