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

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

For a long time, language has been viewed as a uniquely human trait, with features that set us apart from how other species ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fishery regulators in the U.S. state of Washington are considering changing the rules for its commercial Dungeness crab ...

Two fisherman have rescued a humpback whale found entangled in creel fishing gear off the coast of Skye. The creel fishermen had been fishing further south when they received a report of the entangled ...

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

The humpback was seen by excited witness Marie Lepage on Monday, February 3, just off Bedruthan Steps in Newquay, Cornwall, a ...