From deep growls rolling over savannas to haunting whale songs drifting through the ocean, many species rely on sound to stay in touch across miles. New research suggests these calls are not just ...
For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn't feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...
South of Santa Cruz, where coastal waters meet the open Pacific, are the deep waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It's home to an amazing array of creatures: over 300 marine mammal ...
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...
Image Credit: Jodi Frediani. NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Research Permit 19703. December 12, 2023, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis ...
After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...
Despite the difficulties involved, researchers are working to unlock whale language. If we could decipher what whales were saying, an entire world of understanding would emerge from the depths of the ...
Blue whales, the largest animals on the planet, are falling eerily silent across vast stretches of the Pacific and Southern Oceans. Scientists monitoring their acoustic behaviour have reported a sharp ...