The nearly 80-year-old disc resided in the archives of the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for decades and may hold ...

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 ...

When they detected a mysterious sound, they transferred it to an audograph disc and stored it in their archives because they ...

Researchers at a Cape Cod institute have discovered what they say is the earliest known audio recording of a whale. Archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth identified the ...

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, ...

Rescue Crew and Stranded Dolphins: IFAW personnel respond to common dolphins in Wellfleet, Mass., a global hotspot for mass strandings of dolphins. Partnerships and collaborations between researchers ...

Seventy-seven years after its recording, WHOI recovered what could be the first humpback whale song captured on audio. It was labeled "fish noises." ...

What can we learn from the whales? It’s something that researchers at the CETI project (not to be confused with the SETI Institute) are working on in order to help drive awareness around language ...

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, ...

Humpback whale calves communicate with their mothers with “burping, barking and snorting sounds,” according to a new study. Photo from Swanson Chan, UnSplash As many parents can attest, babies often ...

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...