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 ...

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 ...

This is the first time pack-ice killer whale vocalizations have been recorded. Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and ...

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” ...

WHALES ALONG THEIR ENTIRE TRIP. SINCE JANUARY. THE SONG OF THE WHALE SAILBOAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING RIGHT WHALES AS THEY MIGRATE NORTH ALONG THE EAST COAST. ITS CREW NOT ONLY WATCHING THE WHALES, BUT ...

Researchers studying ocean sounds came up with a whopper last year: the eerie bellow of blue whales cruising past New Jersey. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology in New York has been studying whale sounds ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

KELLY: It's the song of a humpback whale, a type of baleen whale. COEN ELEMANS: All the baleen whales make extremely low frequency sounds, and it sounds like a bit like humming, like, (imitating whale ...