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 ...

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 ...

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

Whale song more similar to human language than previously thought – study - Research has revealed a previously undetected ...

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

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three ...

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For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

While Bitcoin [BTC] faces a bearish pullback driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s ...

Through the voices of 77 Angelenos, this story pays tribute to a selection of the thousands of structures that were lost or ...