Whales have a lot of the same ear parts as humans, but they are capable of making sounds that could easily shatter a human's ...

"These dolphins seemed frantic, porpoising in a powerful, unified effort to vacate one location in favor of another – as ...

SW Florida musicians are jamming for cancer-stricken rock guitarist James Wilder of Soapy Tuna, Cinder and more bands. Here's ...

Their dives can last more than two hours, during which they can descend to nearly 10,000 feet. Even when beaked whales ...

Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the most endangered sea turtle species on Earth, live in some of the noisiest waters on the ...

In a warming Arctic, noise from growing shipping traffic is interfering with the ability of narwhals to hunt and communicate.

Nickum is a Bainbridge Island resident who has written three other children’s books, including a nonfiction book for ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

The research identifies multiple overlapping sources of underwater noise, ranging from commercial shipping and icebreakers to seismic surveys and offshore drilling. Together, these sounds form a ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National Geographic issued a record-breaking album of those tunes alongside a story about ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...