From interactive museums to a time capsule opening, here are 10 events happening around Vancouver on Family Day weekend, ...

A mother killer whale's 'grief procession' for her dead newborn calf has come to an end. Observed swimming with other members ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

A pair of rare and critically endangered whales has journeyed past their usual course, appearing in the Gulf Coast where they ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in western Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. The lesson, which ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...