Whales learn complex songs from each other in 'cultural exchange' Whales have many talents, but perhaps their most unique and mysterious one is their hauntingly beautiful singing. And scientists ...

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 ...

Beneath the Arctic sea ice, in the blanket of January's polar night, bowhead whales most prefer to sing. While the songs of humpback whales have long received the most attention, it turns out that ...

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 ...

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.” ...