Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

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

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

A whale,” the official told the British newspaper. The sound, first described by analysts as a man-made noise, had never before been picked up on the sensors — leading the navy to confuse Das ...

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 ...