A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being ...

Whale songs are far removed from the singing that humans are used to. Unlike our musical sounds, those produced by whales are a complex range of vocalisations that include groans, clicks and whistles ...

The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

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, ...

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest extant animals, exhibit a complex interplay of ecological and behavioural adaptations that allow them to thrive in vast, heterogeneous oceanic ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

The underwater microphone first picked up the distinctive ping around 4 a.m. In the water off Hawaii, there it was: the unknown whale’s signature call. Jennifer McCullough, a biologist with the U.S.