The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...