Whales – a mother and a calf – swim offshore of Maui, Hawaii. A new study said whale song – the sounds and vocalizations of whales – follows the same statistical properties as human language. Image ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a vital mode of communication in the ocean environment, especially over long distances," said William Oestreich, a ...

A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...