Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species' ...

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

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

A man who was scooped up by a humpback whale before being released has described his terror during the extraordinary moment caught on video.

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.

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

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

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

An iconic attribute of humpback whales are not harmful to the animals, according to the Port McNeill-based Marine Education and Research Society (MERS).