File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and ...

Humpback songs are similarly complex, often arising from nested hierarchical components. For example the whales create phrases using individual sound elements, then repeat phrases to form themes ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language. While we don't ...