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

A mysterious sound heard booming from deep under the ocean waves has finally been traced to a fascinating source. First recorded in 2014 in the west Pacific, the "biotwang" is actually the call of the ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

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, ...

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a huge whale stayed out of sight from humans for many years. People knew about it only from dead ...

A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being ...

The following piece by Derek Davis, an Earth.com staff writer was based on a research undertaken by the University of ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to ‘hear’ the impacts of a marine heatwave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ...

The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales. Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at ...