Bowhead whales are truly metal. They can live over 200 years, grow up to 60 feet long, and use their large, thick skulls to hurl their bodies through 8-inch-thick sea ice into the air above Arctic ...

This is an audio recording of a blue whale's "song" (2.5 minutes) captured by San Francisco State University Professor Roger Bland at Pioneer Seamount Underwater Observatory off the coast of ...

Scientists have recorded 184 elaborate, very different bowhead whale songs in a bowhead subpopulation living east of Greenland. This makes it the largest set of bowhead whale song recordings ever. The ...

The critically endangered bowhead whales sing like birds in the Fram Strait, off the east coast of Greenland, indicating that the whales might be more populous than previously thought or that they ...

When you think of great jazz artists, bowhead whales are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But a new study conducted by a team from the University of Washington (UW) analyzing audio ...

Today we speak with Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who recently discovered right whales singing for the first time ever. Some ...

Bowhead whales are mysterious, Arctic-dwelling creatures. Scientists believe they can live for over two centuries, and even so, they largely avoid getting cancer. In the 1990s, an old stone spearhead ...

The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it. Unlike anything on the hit album Songs of the Humpback Whale ...

A psychologist has proposed that humpback whales may use song for long-range sonar. It's the singing whale, not the listening whale who is doing most of the analysis. If correct, the model should ...

Editor's note: This story was original published in July 2022. We've updated with news of Roger Payne's death. The man behind the iconic album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" has died. Click the red ...

During the summer, blue whales in the Northeastern Pacific spend their days feeding on massive amounts of tiny plankton called krill. In fact, krill is all they eat. “It really is remarkable that such ...