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

Whales don't just sing; they could in fact be speaking like us. Scientists studying humpback whale songs found complex ...

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 ...

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

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

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

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

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

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

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