The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

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

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

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

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

JERUSALEM — An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar ...

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

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...