Sounds made by humpback whales -- including a previously unknown call -- have given researchers a glimpse of their lives in the high seas. Sounds made by humpback whales -- including a previously ...

Researchers recently recorded humpback whales making popping sounds like a gunshot at the Vema Seamount off the coast of South Africa. It’s not currently known why humpbacks make these sounds, but ...

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

A humpback whale makes two kinds of noises. The first are songs, long, elaborate, patterned and rhythmic vocalizations made by mature males, with some connection to the mating ritual. Within any given ...

Biologists and physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, found out that not all of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) ...