Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...

When they detected a mysterious sound, they transferred it to an audograph disc and stored it in their archives because they ...

Seventy-seven years after its recording, WHOI recovered what could be the first humpback whale song captured on audio. It was labeled "fish noises." ...

Have you ever been lucky enough to snorkel in the ocean? For some it's terrifying because you don't know what's lurking in the dark that you can't see, but for many (like me!) it's like being ...

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 ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how... Study provides most detailed analysis yet of how ...

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 ...

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 ...