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

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.

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 ...

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.

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.