Watch Ariana Grande effortlessly perform a hilarious surprise song about being very, very tiny on late night: 'I am a human ...

Ari belted her way through the song about how tiny she is, with choice lyrics such as "I'm a human baby carrot," "I'm a lady Pikachu," "For a bed, I use a sock," and "10 of me stacked up / Only equals ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human ... song" Prof Simon Kirby from the University of Edinburgh said, "It suggests that our understanding of the evolution of language can benefit ...

"then the languages that are learnable are the only ones that will survive." The other study, published in Science Advances, found that whale song has parallels to another hallmark of human ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf ... Humans and whales are not the only species that do this. We find what is known as “vocal production learning” in an unusual range of species across ...

"If a language has to be learned in order to get from one generation to the next," Kirby suggested, "then the languages that are learnable are the only ones that will survive." The other study, ...

First, the researchers had to identify the units within the song that would be equivalent to human words. To achieve this, they were inspired by the way babies learn language. “Speech is ...

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

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