Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. humpback whale Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

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 ...