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 ...

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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 ...

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

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

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

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.

Only male whales sing as part of an elaborate courtship display to prove their worth to potential mates. Other ways to woo a whale can include physical competition, where males charge at speed all in ...