Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth ... “We don’t hear them singing,” Ryan says about the underwater sound recording from that year. “They’re spending all their energy searching. There’s just ...

Blue whales were wiped out from waters near the Seychelles islands half a century ago but underwater audio captured by scientists shows they returned.

In blue, fin, and humpback whales, singing is reportedly a trait that is found only in fully grown males, and they're going silent lately.

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

The research team used a directional hydrophone on MBARI's underwater observatory, integrated with other advanced technologies, to listen for the booming vocalizations of blue whales.

Blue whale spotted off Cape May coast – a rare sighting of the world's largest animal About 50 people on a wildlife tour got to see a species that typically does not swim this far south.

The ocean is going silent. Blue whales, the gentle leviathans that swim in all but one of the world’s oceans, are the singers of the underwater world. Their groans, whistles and clicks are famously so ...

The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

The distinctive songs of rare pygmy blue whales have been picked up by underwater nuclear bomb detectors. Haunting sounds show numbers of the elusive species have rebounded—after it was hunted ...

Using underwater microphones or hydrophones, Buchan has studied whale acoustics in Patagonian waters since 2007, and discovered that the blue whales off the coast of Chile produce a unique dialect ...