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

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle outlined in Zipf's law ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...