Bowhead whales are truly metal. They can live over 200 years, grow up to 60 feet long, and use their large, thick skulls to hurl their bodies through 8-inch-thick sea ice into the air above Arctic ...

This is an audio recording of a blue whale's "song" (2.5 minutes) captured by San Francisco State University Professor Roger Bland at Pioneer Seamount Underwater Observatory off the coast of ...

Scientists have recorded 184 elaborate, very different bowhead whale songs in a bowhead subpopulation living east of Greenland. This makes it the largest set of bowhead whale song recordings ever. The ...

Today we speak with Jim Darling, a marine biologist who is here to play us some recordings of remarkably similar humpback whale songs from around the world. Together with colleagues around the world, ...

audio: Humpback whales have their own version of the hit single, according to a study reported online on April 14 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. At any given time within a population, ...

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 ...

A machine learning expert turned whale songs into 2-D spectrograms and used image analysis to create an algorithm that can parse whale songs from the cacophony of underwater static noise. BY David ...

We've been listening to the great outdoors from the comfort of our homes since the invention of the portable tape recorder.

A psychologist has proposed that humpback whales may use song for long-range sonar. It's the singing whale, not the listening whale who is doing most of the analysis. If correct, the model should ...

During the summer, blue whales in the Northeastern Pacific spend their days feeding on massive amounts of tiny plankton called krill. In fact, krill is all they eat. “It really is remarkable that such ...

Baby humpback whales seem to whisper to their mothers, according to scientists who have captured the infant whales' quiet grunts and squeaks. The recordings, described in the journal Functional ...

In the waters off California's Monterey Bay, some of the oceans' most iconic creatures have gone unusually silent — and researchers say it's a warning sign we can't afford to ignore. Whale songs, long ...