Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies used by the mammals.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

In all three, they found that sound is produced by aerodynamic vibrations in specific parts of the voice box of baleen whales that are not present in toothed whales. These special structures ...

It's not exactly karaoke. These whale songs have been a source of fascination for decades. Professor Coen Elemans from the University of Southern Denmark is among a group of scientists who have ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...

This suggests that, like humans, whale song is transmitted “culturally”, meaning that whales learn their communication systems from each other. Researchers used methods inspir ...