Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.

Actually, how do they make sounds?" The Professor is part of a team that's just published new research on whale singing in the journal, Nature. In the study, scientists studied the voice boxes ...

Killer whales, or orcas, have long been recognized ... to better understand how these animals learn and share sounds in their natural habitats. The results could provide further evidence of ...

Beluga whales use a wide range of communication sounds, including whistles ... Arctic waters.This illustration is from the Natural History Museum archives. Plate 47 from British Mammals Vol. 1 and 2 ...

Ultrasonic sounds are high-frequency sound waves that exceed 20,000 hertz, a range far beyond what the human ear can detect.

"Using sound recordings to monitor whale populations isn't new," said lead author Marissa Garcia of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. "What makes ...