Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

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

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years ... some whales — including humpbacks, bowhead, blue and fin whales — adhere to two linguistic laws ...