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 ...

UTQIAĠVIK ― Observing how bowhead ... surveys to track whales away from shore. “They knew that whales were going under the ice and through the ice and communicating with sound ― talking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bowheads might be thriving as the sea ice in the Arctic declines. Past bowhead research suggests that the whales were in ...

it also sounds alarms about the changing nature of our oceans. Bowhead whales depend on sea ice for feeding and protection, and their presence in warmer waters could be a sign of habitat disruption.

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to ...

A species of whale, so ancient and elusive that harpoon fragments dating back over a century have been discovered embedded in their bodies, continues to intrigue scientists. The mysterious bowhead ...

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We’ll hear about 40 seconds of it. (Bowhead whale sounds) Miller: Do you have a sense for, first of all, just how far away the whales might be from the underwater microphones, the hydrophones?

By looking at spectrograms, or visualizations of sounds over time, researchers documented when they heard bowheads passing north and south, Szesciorka said. In winter and spring, bowhead whales ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...