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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

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 are using artificial intelligence to study sperm whale clicks. These clicks, called codas, show structured ...

Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal mating call ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...