Archivists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the earliest known whale song recording, taken almost 80 ...

Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, origins, and whether its lonely voice is ever heard in the vast Pacific.

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

For years, a strange and unsettling noise coming from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, puzzled scientists. These mysterious sounds, which resemble whale calls, have now been traced ...

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Groundbreaking research is revealing that communication among whales is far more complex and sophisticated than previously ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa first went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of ...