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 ...

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 are loud. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they are some of the loudest animals on the entire planet. However, something is changing. A study from earlier ...

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 ...

Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea. By Kate Golembiewski People have told stories of strange underwater sounds for thousands of ...

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 ...

Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal mating call ...