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 ...

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 ...

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.

The nearly 80-year-old disc resided in the archives of the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for decades and may hold ...

You might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve been getting closer and closer to cracking the code of their remarkably ...

Puget Sound Express on Tuesday announced it is launching a new Edmonds-to-San Juan Island Whale Watching Tour, a full-day excursion combining whale watching with a two-hour visit to Friday Harbor. […] ...

Fog clings to the Golden Gate, swallowing the booming horns of cargo ships as they attempt to warn other vessels of their presence. Onboard a small research vessel nearby, underwater microphones ...

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 ...

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... Study provides most detailed analysis yet of how ...