Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery. Scientists now think they have an idea, and it's something not seen in ...

Actually, how do they make sounds?" The Professor is part of a team that's just published new research on whale singing in the journal, Nature. In the study, scientists studied the voice boxes ...

Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that enables them to sing underwater. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, has also revealed why the noise we ...

The phrases consist of shrieks that ascend and descend in pitch, grunting, squeaking, growling and groaning. Humpback whales can take up the song of other humpback whales, sing it and pass it on, with ...

The data shows that there’s been a lot of “fluctuation and variability” on the chorusing levels of singing whales over the past eight years, beginning with the 2015 migration year ...

This was confirmed by the presence of known sei whale calls emitted at the same time as the singing. What makes these songs, rather than just a mixture of strange noises, is their occurrence in ...

Scientists have identified a potential migratory corridor for humpback whales off western Ireland and Scotland after hearing them singing along the route. Male humpbacks produce complex and ...