Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

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

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 ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that baleen whales — which includes humpbacks — evolved a specialized voice box for sound production underwater Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Underwater microphones off the NSW south coast capture consistent humpback whale sounds throughout the 2024 migration season.

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 ...

Imagine trying to understand a creature with a brain five times bigger than yours. Their sounds are like underwater techno music. They might be talking about the ocean’s version of philosophy. Project ...

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 ...

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