A great TV theme song has the power to instantly transport us into the world of a show, setting the tone before the first ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

For composer Nathan Alexander, adhering to the film's themes was key to keeping the musical tones clear throughout.

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs ... about human language not as a completely different ...

but there’s a million other things about language that are just entirely different from whale song,” says Enfield. Dr Dolittle machines: How AI is helping us talk to the animals Pattern ...

This doesn’t mean whales have language ... make no such claim for whale song. We have little understanding of the ‘meaning’ of the songs, let alone the different units, for humpback whales.” ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them ... sounds strung together in repeated phrases and themes. All the male whales in a particular ...

We discovered that the same Zipfian pattern universally found across human languages also occurs in whale song. This complex ... why would such different systems in such incredibly distant species ...

February or National Arts Month has well and truly kicked in. Here are 10 events this month that celebrate everything that ...