This marked an unprecedented range of cetacean species, and the data was then directly compared to human languages. It found that 11 of the 16 whale species adhered to Menzerath’s law ...

U.S. Navy Millions of years before we humans came along ... “We do not claim that our whale was a good mimic compared to such well-known mimics as parrots or myna birds,” Ridgway’s Current ...

Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a ...

The whale had never been seen in the wild, and finding a recently deceased adult male meant that, for the first time, scientists could examine the species — an animal around the size of an oversized ...