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Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil.
It found that humpback whales steadily increased their singing after a severe marine heat wave in 2015. The heat wave, ...
Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet. They are powerful swimmers that migrate long distances to feed and breed, ...
Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found.
Can ocean noise hurt whales? Scientists say yes, in some circumstances. Here's what we know so far.
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, ...
A new digital platform, Blue Corridors, showcases 30 years of tracking data revealing global whale migrations and mounting ...
Mystery "quack-like" sounds detected in the ocean over 40 years may have been whales talking, suggests a new study. The noises were picked up in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand, in ...
Whales are among the loudest animals on Earth, but even they can be susceptible to harm from excessive or overly loud noise in the ocean. Scientists have measured blue whales calls as loud as 190 ...