Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The Sun reported on a rather embarrassing blunder on the part of the U.K. Royal Navy. “Suspicious pings” were picked up twice by Navy sensors scanning for signs of enemy activity. The pings raised ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

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

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

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