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 ...

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 ...

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived and has one of the world's loudest calls (Getty) In the immense vastness of the ocean, sound is everything for whales - allowing them to ...