Blue whales near the Seychelles were wiped out half a century ago by whaling. After sightings, scientists set up audio recording devices on the seafloor near the island nation. They found blue whales ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the moment that the biologist Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea. By Kate Golembiewski People have told stories of strange underwater sounds for thousands of ...

Fog clings to the Golden Gate, swallowing the booming horns of cargo ships as they attempt to warn other vessels of their presence. Onboard a small research vessel nearby, underwater microphones ...