A whale’s song is one of the most haunting and mysterious sounds on Earth, ... When a whale sings, its sound waves travel through the water to reach other whales.

All whales rely heavily on sound to understand information about the world around them. Researchers at the Smithsonian Museum created detailed 3-D images of 56 whale fetuses from 15 different species ...

Eerie, fascinating and at times unnerving, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds to have been heard reverberating through the ocean. How baleen whales, which include humpback whales ...

The research found that whale song also has sequences of sounds where the sounds follow each other in a relatively ...

Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales can sing while holding their breath. That’s because a whale’s larynx both makes sound and closes off their airway so they don’t drown.

Northwest artist Perri Lynch-Howard reimagines the depths of the world’s oceans’ as grand canyons of chorales, the habitats of whale choirs, singing — much the way Eastern Point summer resident, ...

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.

Singing Cetaceans. Male humpback whales are known for producing haunting songs, rhythmic sequences of sounds that can last for hours and be heard 20 miles or 30 kilometers away.

Whales are known for their noises, from humpback whale songs to the clicks and whistles of orcas and other toothed cetaceans. The elusive and understudied Bryde’s whale makes an even more ...

Although whales are mammals that breathe air, they spend most of their time roaming the depths of the oceans. There, sound travels faster underwater and farther than it does on the world’s surface, at ...