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

The advisory follows a recent incident on January 6, when a humpback whale was reported entangled in crab gear, and comes after a record high of four whale entanglements in Oregon crab gear in ...

In Antarctica, a scientist waits patiently for two frolicking humpback whales to poke their tails out of the icy waters so she can take a photographic “fingerprint” of the unique colours and ...

Now, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists has found that the intricate songs of humpback whales, which can spread rapidly from one population to another, follow the same rule ...

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 down over the years and changes — ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be investigated for this law due to data constraints. Humpbacks, famous for ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. The study, which looked at eight years of humpback whale ...