Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

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

Study (Maria) The author writes, “The mysterious grunts and moans of the humpback whale have long captivated humans — so much ...

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

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...

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

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

Balancing the euphoria of synth-pop with the harder edges of EBM, futurepop was the sound of a distinct moment - yet its sonic footprint withstood the test of time ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language. While we don't ...

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

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

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