Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. humpback whale Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our ...

Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, ...

A single whale song can train AI to detect calls across decades of ocean recordings, turning hidden acoustic archives into powerful tools.

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

A choir has turned recordings of whale sounds from one of their members into a song celebrating the ocean. Conservationist and photographer Rebecca Douglas is part of a team researching whales in a ...

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...