Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

Hearing the haunting moans and cries that whales make to communicate is an unforgettable, spine-tingling experience. Tourists describe a sense of awe when they witness whale songs, and a series of new ...

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales. Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales ...

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