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

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

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

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

Scientists have discovered that Humpback whale songs follow structured patterns similar to human language, revealing new ...

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 ...

Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

Only male whales sing as part of an elaborate courtship display to prove their worth to potential mates. Other ways to woo a whale can include physical competition, where males charge at speed all in ...

A mammoth 1,653-pound great white shark surfaced off Florida's coast Sunday. The shark is the largest male tagged by OCEARCH scientists.

Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising – and causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause ...