Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa first went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of ...

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!" ...

The nearly 80-year-old disc resided in the archives of the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for decades and may hold ...

ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...

Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal mating call ...

THE EASTERN SEABOARD. WE ARE LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS OF THE SEA. WE BUILD THE BOYS THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME THAT WE USE TO DO NEAR REAL TIME ACOUSTIC MONITORING OF RIGHT WHALES, MEANING WE LISTEN FOR ...

What can we learn from the whales? It’s something that researchers at the CETI project (not to be confused with the SETI Institute) are working on in order to help drive awareness around language ...

Mystery "quack-like" sounds detected in the ocean over 40 years may have been whales talking, suggests a new study. The noises were picked up in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand, in ...