A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was all ...

A man who was swept up in a humpback whale’s mouth before being released has described his terror during the extraordinary ...

Adrian Simancas was kayaking with his father when a humpback whale gobbled up his yellow boat before miraculously spitting ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a 24-year-old kayaker last Saturday during a father-son excursion out on the icy waters ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources.

This work innovatively applies methods inspired by how babies discover words in speech to humpback whale recordings, uncovering the same statistical structures found in all human languages.

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

The study, which looked at eight years of humpback whale recordings, suggests the structure is a type of 'cultural evolution' of learning common to both humans and whales. Further research can ...