The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived and has one of the world's loudest calls (Getty) In the immense vastness of the ocean, sound is everything for whales - allowing them to ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a vital mode of communication in the ocean environment, especially over long distances," said William Oestreich, a ...

An open-source whale tag that records sound, movement, and environmental data will enable scientists to study and decode ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Humpback whale song contains some of the same structural hallmarks as human language, according to new ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --For the last five years, an underwater microphone deployed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, positioned on the Monterey Bay seafloor, several hundred feet beneath the ...

These images may look like just pretty patterns, but they are visual representations of songs sung by whales and dolphins Credit: SPL / BARCROFT MEDIA The sounds were recorded by American engineer ...