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

The seemingly endless size and depth of the ocean can conceal breathtaking creatures so enormous that it can be difficult for us to even imagine them. One such animal is the fin whale, a true ...

Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal mating call ...

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.

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory. By Joanna Thompson / ...

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 ...

Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one of the most mysterious. Whale strandings are fairly routine in Alaska. But the latest, in which a ...

Massachusetts (WBZ) — Researchers are listening for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new buoys in the water. The high-tech buoys ...

For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most ...