A groundbreaking discovery reveals that the communication of humpback whales mirrors key structural elements found in human ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Chrissy Lovett had just opened Maui Ocean Adventures when a deadly wildfire swept through Lahaina in 2023, burning up the entire business. A year and half later, they're finally back in the water.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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