Blue whales are loud. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they are some of the loudest animals on the entire planet. However, something is changing. A study from earlier ...

Research published earlier in 2025 found that whales sing less when food is scarce. Using underwater microphones, or hydrophones, an interdisciplinary team of researchers recorded the songs of blue ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, scientists have installed a variety of research equipment – for example, special hydrophones to record the sounds the sea makes. Yes, if you thought that everything ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

Blue whales have been singing less, and it could be a bellwether of climate change. Warming oceans affect the availability of their only food source, krill, and according to a study published in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...

New research reveals older singing male whales are increasingly successful at siring offspring compared to younger males.