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

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

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

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

For a long time, language has been viewed as a uniquely human trait, with features that set us apart from how other species ...

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 ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...

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.

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

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...