They analysed eight years of whale songs recorded around New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. The researchers started by by ...

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

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 ...

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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

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 ...

Just like people learn to speak by listening to others, whales learn songs and sounds from one another. Whale sound facts: The loudest whale sounds are made by blue whales and are louder than a ...

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 ...

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 the ...

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