For male humpback whales, singing is serious business. Their haunting, complex songs can last for hours and travel for miles ...

Research published in the journal Current Biology reveals a hidden structure inside one of the animal kingdom’s most complex acoustic displays: the songs of male humpback whales aren’t sung uniformly, ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales react to higher frequency sounds than expected. Associate Professor Rebecca ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals ...

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

The haunting, complex songs of male humpback whales can last for hours and travel for miles underwater, playing a central ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of Bengalese finches ...

Scientists have found that songbirds follow the same statistical laws as every human language, joining humpback whales.

PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate.