A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...

In the 1950s, after having endured relentless attacks by German U-boats during World War II, the U.S. Navy devoted considerable resources to detecting and tracking submarines at long range. Chief in ...

A recording of whale song was launched into space aboard the Voyager spacecraft ...

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Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

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 ...

Researchers repurposed an AI model designed for visual identification tasks to detect Bryde’s whale calls contained with seismic data collected in the South China Sea. A whale call can be visualized ...

For most of human history, people thought the ocean was a silent world. Then, in the late 1960s, a young biologist listened closely and discovered it was full of melodies. A Navy engineer named Frank ...