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Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how... Study provides most detailed analysis yet of how ...

Whale expert Eduardo Mercado proposes a groundbreaking theory about what singing whales are actually doing and argues that ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Now scientists have finally ...

Baleen whales are the largest animals to have ever roamed our planet and as top predators play a vital role in marine ecosystems. To communicate across vast distances and find each other, baleen ...

The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud? Read more!

For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most ...

KELLY: It's the song of a humpback whale, a type of baleen whale. COEN ELEMANS: All the baleen whales make extremely low frequency sounds, and it sounds like a bit like humming, like, (imitating whale ...

The iconic baleen whales, such as the blue, gray and humpback whale, depend on sound for communication in the vast marine environment where they live. Now researchers have for the first time found ...