The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...

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 ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a vital mode of communication in the ocean environment, especially over long distances," said William Oestreich, a ...

When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...

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 ...

Zipf’s Law states that the most common word in any language appears twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, ten times as often as the tenth. It is constant ...

“Gray whales are entering the bay, likely pressured by climate changes and decline of their prey in the Arctic,” Slaathaug ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine - Towns spotted along the coast in Maine are commonly known for two things -- lobster and whale watching. But scientists have noticed changing climate patterns over the past decade, ...