Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

Underwater surveys picked up mysterious “bio-twang” sounds from the Mariana Trench in 2014. A new study reveals where the sci-fi-esque noises are coming from. The Mariana Trench lies in the Pacific ...

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.

Whale songs can be both beautiful and haunting. But the exact mechanism that the 16 species of baleen whales, like humpback and minke whales, use to make those noises hasn’t been well understood. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: ::Project CETI This is what it sounds like when sperm whales communicate. Those bursts of clicking noises are called codas.