A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.

At the 69 th IWC meeting in 2024, for example, countries voting against both a Resolution on commercial whaling and a ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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