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

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 ...

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

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...