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

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

New research finds male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if ...

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

Using the alphanumeric versions of the whale songs, the team calculated the transitional probabilities between consecutive sound elements, making a cut when the next sound element was surprising ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they’re completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 ...

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

These whale songs are sung by males as a way to woo a mate, and they can change and morph into a more complicated song each year. But are these songs simply a collection of sounds, or do they ...