A pair of adult female right whales, Koala and Curlew, have mystified researchers this winter as they cruised south along the Florida coast, then made a surprise appearance this week off Alabama ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Did you know whales once swam in the Great Salt Lake? Or did they? The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be ...

“Once we got close enough, finally my brain registered ‘hey that’s, that’s a whale … oh wait, that’s two whales!,’” marveled Kelly in an interview with us Tuesday. Not ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle outlined in Zipf’s law Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent All human ...

It takes a day for Hori Parata (Ngātiwai) to dissect a whale. His tipuna have been doing this work for some 15 generations, and now his son does too. “We’re doing it because it’s a retrieval of ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. The study, which looked at eight years of humpback whale ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

Across just a few weeks, complex, never-before-heard melodies sung by humpback whales can spread across thousands of kilometres of oceans. These whale songs are sung by males as a way to woo a mate, ...

This heartwarming tale sees these intelligent sea creatures forming a protective circle around a birthing whale, shielding the majestic mother and her calf from approaching sharks. Dolphins, with ...