The humpback whale song recording was taken near Bermuda in 1949. Scientists at Cape Cod-based WHOI found it in their archives in fall 2025.

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according ...

Oldest whale recording from 1949 reveals secrets of humpback communication and the quieter oceans of the past.

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Most of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean.  This vast expanse of water still holds many mysteries.  One such mystery is what some people have dubbed the loneliest whale, or the 52-hertz whale.

BOSTON (WWLP) – The New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team spotted endangered blue whales during two back-to-back surveys. This marked the first time the Aquarium has documented a blue whale in the ...

Two blue whales were recently spotted by a team of scientists from the New England Aquarium. This marks the first time the aquarium has documented a blue whale in the southern New England survey area.

BOSTON — Scientists with the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life were flying over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Feb. 27 when they sighted a ...

The 90-foot leviathans were spotted just south of the Island. Two observers from the New England Aquarium looked out either side of a small twin-engine, four-seater airplane late last month and saw ...