Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

On Jan. 20, an acoustic buoy detected an endangered North Atlantic right whale call near Savannah, prompting NOAA to issue a ...

Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf of Mexico.

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 ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source. As far as deep-sea ...

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 ...

Fog clings to the Golden Gate, swallowing the booming horns of cargo ships as they attempt to warn other vessels of their presence. Onboard a small research vessel nearby, underwater microphones ...