Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Northern right whale dolphins swim just under the surface near British Columbia, Canada. Echolocation is a logical strategy in the ...

Whales are highly intelligent, social creatures, so it makes sense that their songs and clicks are probably more than just random sounds. But just how complex is whale speak? Researchers from Project ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

Sperm whales are the loudest animals on Earth and rely on sound to find food in the sprawling darkness of the deep sea. MBARI technology allows us to listen in, gaining new insight into the mysterious ...

In 1970, the release of the best-selling nature album of all time introduced the world to whale song and transformed how we view whales forever.

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil. Beaked whales are one of the most poorly understood mammals. That’s because these ...

Sightings of sperm whales are rare in Monterey Bay. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t nearby, deep under the surface of the ocean. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute analyzed a ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Northern right whale dolphins swim just under the surface near British Columbia, Canada. Echolocation is a logical strategy in the ocean, where sound travels five times faster than in air. Photograph ...