Harpy eagles are one of the world's most powerful eagles, which can be found in the rainforests of Central and South America.

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 ...

Chrissy Lovett had just opened Maui Ocean Adventures when a deadly wildfire swept through Lahaina in 2023, burning up the ...

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

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