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

A new study reveals a direct link between the structure of a male humpback ...

Scientists could record humpback whale songs traveling for miles, but what the whale's body was actually doing during those hours of singing remained a stubborn mystery. Now a clever tagging method ...

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

Humpback whales may be matching their underwater songs to their dive choreography. Researchers found different song themes ...

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

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 ...

A humpback whale alters the pitch of its song when joined by a neighboring singer, a finding that opens a new chapter in the ongoing effort to understand whale song, some of the most structurally and ...

There I was, idly researching cetaceans on the company dime, when I came across Songs of the Humpback Whale. Released 55 years ago this month, this album of whale songs remains the bestselling ...

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