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

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

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

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

Using the alphanumeric versions of the whale songs, the team calculated the transitional probabilities between consecutive sound elements, making a cut when the next sound element was surprising ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

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

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

Just like people learn to speak by listening to others, whales learn songs and sounds from one another. Whale sound facts: The loudest whale sounds are made by blue whales and are louder than a ...