All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

Humpback whale – credit Operation CetacesLanguage has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it ...

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

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...