Seventy-seven years after its recording, WHOI recovered what could be the first humpback whale song captured on audio. It was labeled "fish noises." ...
Psychology professor Eduardo Mercado III wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first heard humpback whales singing. A groundbreaking expert on whale song, Mercado is a cognitive ...
A group of boaters off the coast of Maui, Hawaii stumbled upon a family of curious humpback whales. Listen to them sing as they circle around the boat. The whales wandered so close to the boat that ...
Research published earlier in 2025 found that whales sing less when food is scarce. Using underwater microphones, or hydrophones, an interdisciplinary team of researchers recorded the songs of blue ...
Each year, whales migrate to and from feeding and breeding grounds. Gray whales, North Atlantic right whales, and blue whales ...
Learn all humpback whales, giant sirens of the sea - from where they live to what they eat, and why they don't have teeth ...
It’s as long as a bus, weighs 40 tons and can launch 12 metres into the air — and it sings haunting songs that travel for miles. Meet the ocean’s most spectacular performer.