Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species' ...

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

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

Blue Whale songs consist of an A call, a series of pulses, followed by a long, low moan called the B call. This A-B sequence is repeated over and over again, approximately once every 130 seconds.

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

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

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

A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Brazil in August 2023. Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed ... bowhead, blue and fin whales — adhere ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...