Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

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 ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Infrasonic sounds are sound waves with frequencies lower than 20 Hz, which is below the range of human hearing.

Researchers have discovered these creatures, which include the blue whale, have unusual structures in their larynx that ...

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

Blue Whale songs consist of an A call, a series of pulses, followed by a long, low moan called the B call. This A-B sequence is repeated over and over again, approximately once every 130 seconds.

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

and loud sounds can be heard across entire ocean basins; indeed, blue whales can communicate over 1000s of kilometres. But this makes identifying the direction of a sound very difficult ...

from the infra-sound of blue whales, to the ultra-sound of pistol shrimp, all sea life only tunes into part of the spectrum of sound available. In creating a soundtrack suitable for the human ...

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 ...