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 ...

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

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, prompting an outpouring of grief ...

Koala and Curlew, two endangered female North Atlantic right whales have gone off course, perplexing researchers.

Over the years, encounters with creatures like massive pythons, crocodiles, and even whales have shown that nature can be ...

Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...

Different sharks use different strategies to eat. Like many actual whales, the whale shark filter-feeds, straining teeny plankton from up to 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of filtered water ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...