Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

Humpback anglerfish typically are found at depths of up to 1,500 meters below the water's surface, where there is little to no sunlight.

In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

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 ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

"So it's a really surprising thing to find it in this completely unrelated species of humpback whales producing songs deep in the ocean." What are whales saying to each other? Scientists are a ...

Humpback whales, which are found in all the world’s oceans, are chiefly threatened by entanglements in fishing gear as well as ship strikes and underwater noise, according to the National ...

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 ...

Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote site in the north of ...

"We did a very meticulous deep dive into humpback whale song," said Jenny Allen, a researcher in whale behaviour at Griffith University in Australia and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.