something that can leave them vulnerable to having their sounds drowned out by ship engines and other human noise. Whales have even been observed learning complex songs from each other.

These far-reaching, low-frequency sounds are often woven together into eerie, melancholic songs that whales use to communicate with each other. Rebecca Dunlop, a professor at the University of ...

Scientists have worked out how some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs. Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that ...

A groundbreaking research project is finally building the tools to translate just how whales and other creatures communicate.

This whizzing tone using both low and high frequency pings sounds somewhat electronic or mechanical, unlike more melodic songs made by some baleen whales. Now, this strange vocalization has been ...

Payne, who helped discover and record humpback whale song a few years prior ... that fin whale vocalizations—low-frequency sounds that carry long distances—could theoretically travel an ...

Acoustician and lead study author Dr Salvatore Cerchio said “the sei whale songs are simply the most bizarre and unusual sounds I have ever heard from a whale. They are entirely other worldly.” ...

“Whale Song,” a new public art installation created by French artist Jean-Marie Appriou to demonstrate the historical and mythological significance of whales, premiered at Boston’s Central Wharf Park ...

Whale song is something else altogether ... Whale calls can be so specific and recognisable that their prey can use the sounds to identify danger. A 2002 study on predator recognition found that grey ...

Researchers say the population of a new sub-species of Blue Whale appears to be growing, after analysing nearly two decades of data on the animals' songs. The recordings of the Chagos Pygmy Blue ...

The elusive and understudied Bryde’s whale makes an even more mysterious noise called “Biotwang.” This whizzing tone using both low and high frequency pings sounds somewhat electronic or mechanical, ...

A specialist in the biology of sound has made an incredible observation about the "Jedi" smell-powers of mice and rats. While ...