Through the use of two advanced audio recording technologies, a collaboration of Monterey Bay researchers has found that blue whales switch from nighttime to daytime singing when they are starting to ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --For the last five years, an underwater microphone deployed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, positioned on the Monterey Bay seafloor, several hundred feet beneath the ...

For centuries, sailors heard eerie sounds from the deep, inspiring sea legends. Decades later, scientists identified some as calls from sperm whales, and now AI may bring us closer than ever to ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale song," said Prof. Inbal Arnon from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The ...

New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like sounds. These patterns are deliberate and structured, similar to human ...

A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...

Whale sharks have unique spot patterns, like fingerprints. In the Maldives, these help researchers track their movements, ...