Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Oscar nominee Gints Zilbalodis on the allure of capybaras, casting his sound editor’s cat, and including human voice actors in his next movie.

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

This is the case with Kerr Thomson’s adventure, The Sound Of Whales. The story takes place on Nin, a remote island off the north coast of Scotland, where the islanders make their living from the ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

In a story that seems like it was pulled directly from a Grimm's fairy tale, one man is lucky to be alive after being ...