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 ...

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 ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

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

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

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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