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 ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

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

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.

The team found that whale feces contained significant amounts of iron, meaning that whales fertilize the ocean as they feed and excrete waste.

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

Research Reveals Whales Evolved in Three Rapid Phases, Their Ancestors Crawled Out of the Sea 400 Million Years Ago A recent research revealed a remarkable story of whale evolution—how these ...