Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

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

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

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 animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...