When large marine animals change their movement patterns, it often signals broader shifts in ocean conditions. Dr. Meynecke ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

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

Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field ...

For the world’s smallest sea turtles, life in the ocean is getting pretty noisy. These relatively little turtles (on average ...

New research shows endangered sea turtles hear low ship noise clearly, raising questions about how busy coastlines affect their lives.

Dive beneath the waves of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where sea otters play, humpback whales migrate, and ...

Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf ...

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

Once, magnificent creatures like the Dodo and Passenger Pigeon roamed Earth. Their trusting nature and sheer numbers, however, couldn't protect them from human hunting and habitat destruction. From ...

This new insight builds on a 2010 discovery known as the "whale pump," a system in which whales feed in deep waters and then ...