This marked an unprecedented range of cetacean species, and the data was then directly compared to human languages. It found that 11 of the 16 whale species ... whales and humpback whales, though ...

How to search for the pattern in humpback whale song, however, wasn’t immediately clear. First, the researchers had to identify the units within the song that would be equivalent to human words.

The dissection revealed that humpback whales have a surprisingly low density of these cells, especially compared to ... low CPD] is bad for a human, but not bad for a whale at all,” says Thomas ...

Despite their colossal size ... where a breaching whale accidentally collided with a nearby fishing boat. Why did the humpback whale in the video above engulf the two human kayakers?

A father-son duo kayaking off the coast of Chile has made waves after sharing a video of what appears to show a humpback whale briefly ... roughly the size of a human fist. Kerr says humpback ...

Despite having eyes the size of an orange, the humpback whale has limited visual acuity ... which are endangered in much of their range, from human threats.

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

And just like a human baby shows off its impressive lung capacity when hungry, a baby humpback whale with a hankering ... because of their mind-boggling size: newborn blue whales are more than ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The English language is full of ...

The dissection revealed that humpback whales have a surprisingly low density of these cells, especially compared ... whale eye. Michael Spencer/UNCW “[A low CPD] is bad for a human, but not ...