The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

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Blue whales are sounding a bit different than a couple decades ago. A study published recently in the journal Endangered Species Research found call of the blue whale has dropped by more than half an ...

The cable deployed in Haro Strait can be divided into what scientists call "virtual hydrophones" — discrete listening points ...

Blue whales near the Seychelles were wiped out half a century ago by whaling. After sightings, scientists set up audio recording devices on the seafloor near the island nation. They found blue whales ...

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

For centuries, the deep, resonant calls of blue whales have been a defining sound of the open ocean. These low-frequency songs, which can travel for hundreds of miles, are crucial for their ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – A vessel speed reduction partnership amongst environmental groups, government agencies at the county and federal level, and now 49 international shipping companies is ...