Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...

Although George Martin may have been more knowledgeable about music theory in Beatles sessions, he felt this song tested his ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

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

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

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

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

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that ...

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

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

Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, ...