Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil.

Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet. They are powerful swimmers that migrate long distances to feed and breed, ...

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, ...

It found that humpback whales steadily increased their singing after a severe marine heat wave in 2015. The heat wave, ...

Tracking blue whales by their booming vocalizations, researchers have revealed how these ocean giants find dense aggregations of food. A study by MBARI researchers and their collaborators published ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found.

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 ...

Sperm whales use sound to identify themselves socially in a similar manner to how humans use clothing, a new study revealed. Sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean use sound as a form of “symbolic marking” ...

Humpback whales are known to sing, though researchers have yet to identify the exact reason why Sound is a vital form of communication for all species, and humpback whales are no different. According ...

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