Through the voices of 77 Angelenos, this story pays tribute to a selection of the thousands of structures that were lost or ...

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

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

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 of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

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

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. The study, which looked at eight years of humpback whale ...