The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

Blue whales near the Seychelles were wiped out half a century ago by whaling. After sightings, scientists set up audio recording devices on the seafloor near the island nation. They found blue whales ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the moment that the biologist Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

Hydrophones track rare beaked whales by their unique underwater clicks. Sound monitoring reveals new species, habitats, and behaviors of beaked whales. Acoustic tracking help conservation by ...

Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales can sing while holding their breath. That’s because a whale’s larynx both makes sound and closes off their airway so they don’t drown. Try closing your ...