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

A deep-sea creature only recorded alive on one other occasion has been seen for what's believed to be the first time in broad ...

A whale has been spotted making waves at Britain's top surfing capital in an incredible video that shows it playfully slapping the water with its fin. The humpback was seen by excited witness ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Bex Allen from Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said monthly surveys show an increased number of humpback whales ... up in the air when they deep dive. "They're one of those whales that everyone wants ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow ... we’d uncovered a deep commonality between these ...