The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

Scientists with the Massachusetts State Division of Marine Fisheries have launched a new program to track where and when the ...

Exploration for deep-sea minerals in the Clarion Clipperton Zone threatens to disrupt an unexpectedly rich ecosystem of ...

Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific ...

It's migration season. Find out where to go to spot humpbacks, orcas, dolphins and more on the Monterey County coast.

Whale song. Researchers spotted 10 Bryde’s whales swimming near the Mariana Islands, west of the famous trench. Nine of the ten were recorded making the distinctive bio-twang noise.

This is the first of its kind along the West Coast and now offers data on where orcas are traveling overnight, which ...

"Ship noise is low frequency and baleen whale song is low frequency, so the ship noise can mask the whales communicating." Whales also need their rest, particularly when they are nursing their young.

They identified the source of this variation by comparing the frequency of sperm whale noises to the location of a food-rich region called the North Pacific Transition Zone.

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and ...