In the study, she and her team report they’ve produced the largest set of recordings of bowhead whales, consisting of audio gathered from 2010 to 2014 that includes 184 different songs.

This is an audio recording of a blue whale's "song" (2.5 minutes) captured by San Francisco State University Professor Roger Bland at Pioneer Seamount Underwater Observatory off the coast of ...

Under the Arctic ice, a mysterious concert plays out each winter. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) living east of Greenland break into a wide range of complex, intricate songs, showcasing a new ...

Hearing the haunting moans and cries that whales make to communicate is an unforgettable, spine-tingling experience. Tourists describe a sense of awe when they witness whale songs, and a series of ...

Today we speak with Jim Darling, a marine biologist who is here to play us some recordings of remarkably similar humpback whale songs from around the world. Together with colleagues around the ...

audio: Humpback whales have their own version of the hit single, according to a study reported online on April 14 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. At any given time within a ...

A machine learning expert turned whale songs into 2-D spectrograms and used image analysis to create an algorithm that can parse whale songs from the cacophony of underwater static noise.

Blue whales off California’s coast sing at night—until it’s time to start migrating, and they switch to daytime song.

Scientists recently tracked eight baby whales using special sound and movement recorders. The sounds the babies made turned out to be far different from the eerie songs of adult male humpbacks.

We've been listening to the great outdoors from the comfort of our homes since the invention of the portable tape recorder.

A psychologist has proposed that humpback whales may use song for long-range sonar. It's the singing whale, not the listening whale who is doing most of the analysis. If correct, the model should ...