Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When writer and teacher G. Mischele Miller was a young mother in coastal Florida, she made up songs to sing to her son. One tune ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...