The ocean is full of many unknowns, including the mysterious sounds that often come from the deep. For instance, a mechanical ...

An answer finally arrived in 2014: using tags that recorded their behavior, scientists were able to link the sound to ...

Scientists tested baleen whale hearing using brain wave recordings. The minke whales responded to ultrasonic sounds, ...

Both scientists and sailors alike have recorded unique, strange noises in the ocean for decades. They sound guttural, and ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale.

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...

SETI researchers camped at a remote Southeast Alaska lighthouse last summer to investigate humpback whale communication.

In the winter of 2022–2023, nearly a dozen whales died off the coast of New Jersey, near the sites of several proposed wind ...