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

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

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

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

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

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...