Blue whale sounds are made in the infrasonic range, which is too low for humans ... It’s not just their vocal and hearing abilities that make blue whales impressive though – they’ve recently ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth ... whale is so deep and such a low frequency that it is beyond the range of human hearing. But Mr Watson, who has managed to record blue whales ...

New research, published in Nature, reveals that the way baleen whale throats have evolved prevents them from singing outside the range of noise made by our ships. This means blue, grey and minke ...

“For us to hear blue whale calls, they must be made at an intensity of 70 dB or more,” BBC writer Ella Davies reports. “But for sperm whale clicks, the human hearing threshold is around 15 dB.

In this corner, weighing up to 190 metric tons, is the blue whale. This behemoth still swimming in Earth’s oceans is the current titleholder for the heaviest animal to ever exist — living or dead.

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth ... whale is so deep and such a low frequency that it is beyond the range of human hearing. But Mr Watson, who has managed to record blue whales ...