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

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using machine learning to research sperm whale communication habits -- and they're learning unprecedented things. Their new study, ...

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

Sperm whales, denizens of the deep ocean, rely on sound for survival in their extreme environment. They produce the loudest biological sounds on Earth, reaching up to 236 decibels underwater. These ...

In 2014, researchers monitoring acoustic recordings from the Mariana Archipelago picked up an unusual whale vocalization with both low- and high-frequency components. It seemed to be a whale call, but ...

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

THE EASTERN SEABOARD. WE ARE LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS OF THE SEA. WE BUILD THE BOYS THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME THAT WE USE TO DO NEAR REAL TIME ACOUSTIC MONITORING OF RIGHT WHALES, MEANING WE LISTEN FOR ...

Scientists are testing the limits of artificial intelligence when it comes to language learning. One recent challenge? Learning ... whale!... Sperm whale families ...

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, ...

Talking with dogs, decoding whale sounds and interpreting bird calls could all be possible in the coming years as artificial intelligence applications learn to translate different creatures' ...

SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types. But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the ...