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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

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

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

For a long time, language has been viewed as a uniquely human trait, with features that set us apart from how other species ...

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

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