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

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

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

This is the stunning moment a huge humpback whale breaches from the water. The mammal, which can weigh up to 35 tonn ...

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

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

The two creel fishermen had been fishing south of of Skye on Sunday when a report of the entangled marine animal was received ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

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

I only managed to get a good view after a month of tracking it. It’s been swimming around in the evening, creating chaos with ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...