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

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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 ...

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

An entangled and “exhausted” humpback whale was recently rescued off the coast of the United Kingdom, video footage shows. Photo from Silas Baisch, UnSplash An entangled humpback whale was ...

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 ...

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 collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in Huntington Beach last week, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.