For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

On Jan. 20, an acoustic buoy detected an endangered North Atlantic right whale call near Savannah, prompting NOAA to issue a ...

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 ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales ...

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 ...

Hearing the haunting moans and cries that whales make to communicate is an unforgettable, spine-tingling experience. Tourists describe a sense of awe when they witness whale songs, and a series of new ...

Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day ...

With the rapid melting of Arctic ice, the waters have opened up to more human traffic, which is disturbing the underwater ...

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, ...

The doctoral candidate at Duke University is employing new whale-tagging technology to reveal highly detailed information about pilot whale hunting habits, answering old questions about the specifics ...