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 ...

Zebra finches’ songs share a lot of patterns with human speech. Do they have a common biological ancestry? Raina Fan/McGill University Human languages might be a distant cousin of bird songs, with the ...

Kelsea Ballerini is adding five new songs to the tracklist of her Patterns album. The singer announced on Thursday morning (Feb. 27) that she's issuing a deluxe version of the project, which will ...

Male fin whales pick up new songs while on their travels, and then sing them to all their friends, new research suggests. The second-largest creature in the world after the blue whale, the fin whale ...