Songs have lowered in frequency, in part because of changes to ocean water. Whales in the ocean around Antarctica are changing their tune, according to a new study. Publishing their findings in the ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales. Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at ...

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 ...

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