In the never-ending symphony of the sea, there's a standout among the percussive pings of bottlenose dolphins and the plaintive calls of humpback whales. New recordings of the little-studied ...

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75%.

These intelligent cetaceans also employ a complex system of clicks, burst-pulse sounds, and body language ... specific meanings within whale social groups. Research by Dr. Shane Gero through The ...

He started poking around in the literature and found evidence suggesting that killer whales cannot hear sounds below 100 Hz ... The "fight" whales—which include right whales, bowhead whales, grey ...

Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research. Scientists who analyzed the seemingly random movement of bowhead whales in the ...

The project is funded in part by The Bullitt ... sea ice is predicted to bring ships into novel areas, putting whales, including bowhead and gray whales, at risk as they shift their range ...

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch ... acoustic herd theory demonstrated that fin whale vocalizations—low-frequency sounds that carry long distances—could ...

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were hunted extensively for oil and baleen in the 1800s and early 1900s, but have since made a comeback. They are also thought to be able to live up to 200 ...

although the researchers didn't record the whales' sounds to determine whether they were interacting, as it remains a technically challenging task. Depth records from the twelve tagged bowhead whales ...

Quincy Adams slices through bowhead whale meat to distribute to his family and community members in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), AK on April 24, 2024. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media).

The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas each year is a conservation success story, with today's population nearing—if not exceeding—pre-commercial ...

But as Arctic ice continues to shrink, noise from shipping and other industrial activity will ratchet up sound levels in a previously silent ocean ecosystem sheltering important species like belugas, ...