They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...
Endangered pilot whales are calling louder to compete with ship noise, but researchers say signals may already be at their ...
It's noisy underwater, especially just below the surface. "A lot of the ambient noise is from the wind and waves," says ...
Hundreds descended on a quiet beach for what would likely be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing. Then the realities of a giant ...
By Laela Sayigh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years ...
Massachusetts is one of the best places in the world for whale watching. We asked an expert for advice on having the best ...
Pilot whales are having to shout louder to be heard over deafening noise from shipping, reveals new research. The underwater ...
With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ...
With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean is one of the busiest waterways on the planet. This narrow strip of water ...
A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...
If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...