California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

Villagers found the snake and her body inside its stomach. In 2017 ... lobster diver Michael Packard was briefly trapped in the mouth of a humpback whale off Massachusetts. He was spat out after 30-40 ...

Guests reach Spirit Bear Lodge by flying from Vancouver to the small airport at Bella Bella (scheduled for 90 minutes but it can take longer), then transfering to a boat for a two-hour journey north ...

Now, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists has found that the intricate songs of humpback whales, which can spread rapidly from one population to another, follow the same rule ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Brazil in August 2023. Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years and changes — something ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

Across just a few weeks, complex, never-before-heard melodies sung by humpback whales can ... While the whales might use complex songs as part of their mating ritual, there's no language or ...

Whale songs share patterns with human language transmission Humpback whale song is culturally transmitted like human speech Findings suggest complex communication exists in non-human species ...