In 2014, researchers monitoring acoustic recordings from the Mariana Archipelago picked up an unusual whale vocalization with both low- and high-frequency components. It seemed to be a whale call, but ...

Imagine that you’re at a summer barbeque, catching up with some friends, when you hear the sound of fire truck sirens going off in the distance. You might wonder whether there’s danger nearby, but you ...

Scientists searching for life outside our planet say they’ve finally made contact – with a humpback whale. "It gives us insight in what we might need to do in order to replicate something like this ...

The collective wisdom of the crowd is being called upon to help scientists decipher the language of pilot and killer whales in a project that could help us operate our machines in harmony with the ...

An adult male transient or Bigg's killer whale. Robin Agarwal via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Last Thursday at around 9 a.m. local time, a boat off the eastern shore of Prince of Wales Island in ...