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 ...

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Whale songs can be both beautiful and haunting. But the exact mechanism that the 16 species of baleen whales, like humpback and minke whales, use to make those noises hasn’t been well understood. The ...

KELLY: It's the song of a humpback whale, a type of baleen whale. COEN ELEMANS: All the baleen whales make extremely low frequency sounds, and it sounds like a bit like humming, like, (imitating whale ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the "echoic return signal" ...

SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types. But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

The scientist David Gruber explains the mission of Project CETI, and what his team has learned about how whales communicate. and the president and founder of Project CETI Project CETI is the Cetacean ...

At over 10,000 miles, gray whales have the longest migration of any mammal in the world. The population on this side of the Pacific travels from the coast of Mexico to Alaska as the weather turns ...

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark. Emitting sounds that bounce off objects gives the whales a clear picture of their surroundings. “More often than any ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.