"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

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 ...

I only managed to get a good view after a month of tracking it. It’s been swimming around in the evening, creating chaos with parking as people try and see it.' ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...