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 ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet. That's right: The biggest whale ...

Scientists just had a conversation with a humpback whale, and the response was astonishing. Using AI, researchers mimicked ...

Chrissy Lovett had just opened Maui Ocean Adventures when a deadly wildfire swept through Lahaina in 2023, burning up the ...

The carcass of a dwarf sperm whale is found washed up on an Adelaide beach, with a local tour boat operator who says he saw the "very rare" animal when it was alive and several kilometres offshore ...

A pair of highly endangered whales seen swimming the Gulf this week have Texas experts on high alert. The two adult female ...

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

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

A three metre dead pilot whale has washed up on a popular western suburbs beach. Early morning beachgoers and walkers stopped ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.