Beaked whales are rarely spotted. Now scientists are using underwater sounds to help identify these elusive creatures.

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

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

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, ...

A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...

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 ...

Little Patch is pictured. He’s a part of the North Puget Sound gray whales. A beloved whale ditched his migration to Mexico and went to Washington’s Puget Sound months early to snack on shrimp, a ...

Scientists know a surprising amount of information about Southern Resident Killer Whales, but once the whales leave their ...

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Researchers from an organization that seeks out extraterrestrial life camped out at a remote lighthouse in Southeast Alaska for the better part of the summer, but they weren’t out there looking for ...

A beloved whale ditched his migration to Mexico and went to Washington’s Puget Sound months early to snack on shrimp, a whale group said. Little Patch was spotted and identified Dec. 11 in the ...