Emory graduate Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores conservation efforts for the species in the Feb. 15 episode of “Mutual of Omaha’s ...

Incredible footage showing a man briefly being 'swallowed' by a whale is the latest in seemingly similar, yet mostly benign interactions.

This week has seen two incredible stories of people surviving being swallowed by a whale, but what happens if you are ...

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...

In an ordeal that sounds like it would belong in the bible, a humpback whale has been caught on film trying to swallow a ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

The character and charm of smaller coastal towns continue to draw a broad cross-section of home buyers seeking a quality lifestyle, value-for-money and location accessibility, says Pam Golding ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend toward efficiency and brevity — with statistical laws that persist across cultures. Perhaps now, even across ...

Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years and changes — something it has in common with human language. (Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images ...

A new study has found that certain whale species' vocalizations adhere to two linguistic laws of efficiency seen in human language: Menzerath’s law and Zipf’s law (with Zipf's law being ...