Beaked whales are rarely spotted. Now scientists are using underwater sounds to help identify these elusive creatures.

A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...

In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.

WHALES ALONG THEIR ENTIRE TRIP. SINCE JANUARY. THE SONG OF THE WHALE SAILBOAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING RIGHT WHALES AS THEY MIGRATE NORTH ALONG THE EAST COAST. ITS CREW NOT ONLY WATCHING THE WHALES, BUT ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue whales near the Seychelles were wiped out half a century ago by whaling. After sightings, scientists set up audio recording devices on the seafloor near the island nation. They found blue whales ...

The following piece by Derek Davis, an Earth.com staff writer was based on a research undertaken by the University of ...

Having a fiance, Stuart Bearhop, who worked as a professor of ecology at the University of Exeter proved useful, as he asked ...

Biologists discovered killer whales and dolphins working together to hunt salmon, a behavior never before documented in this ...

Editor's note: This story was original published in July 2022. We've updated with news of Roger Payne's death. The man behind the iconic album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" has died. Click the red ...