Bowhead whales are truly metal. They can live over 200 years, grow up to 60 feet long, and use their large, thick skulls to hurl their bodies through 8-inch-thick sea ice into the air above Arctic ...

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 ...

The critically endangered bowhead whales sing like birds in the Fram Strait, off the east coast of Greenland, indicating that the whales might be more populous than previously thought or that they ...

Scientists have recorded 184 elaborate, very different bowhead whale songs in a bowhead subpopulation living east of Greenland. This makes it the largest set of bowhead whale song recordings ever. The ...

Any quick internet search for recordings of humpback whale song returns audio compilations that can receive tens of thousands — if not millions — of visits. With such quantifiable popularity, you ...

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. Whale calls ...

Songs have lowered in frequency, in part because of changes to ocean water. Whales in the ocean around Antarctica are changing their tune, according to a new study. Publishing their findings in the ...

The soft, haunting sounds of whales left me speechless. That feeling of awe, it turns out, is changing how people behave long after the tour ends. A new study from Australia's Sunshine Coast suggests ...

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 world, ...

Ever wanted to eavesdrop on a humpback whale? Scientists from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have, and are using deep-sea live streaming audio to do just that. SEE ALSO: Long-lived bowhead ...

The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it. Unlike anything on the hit album Songs of the Humpback Whale ...

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 ...