There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

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 ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- International scientists have found that whale noises and songs share the same structure with human language. The scientists analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, ...

This suggests that, like humans, whale song is transmitted “culturally”, meaning that whales learn their communication systems from each other. Researchers used methods inspir ...

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows a similar structural pattern to that of human communication.

Certain animals, though rare, have the size and anatomical abilities to swallow humans whole. Reticulated pythons, for ...