Humpback whales are known to sing, though researchers have yet to identify the exact reason why Sound is a vital form of communication for all species, and humpback whales are no different. According ...

Songs that travel thousands of kilometers The broadest picture comes from a 2011 study in Current Biology led by Ellen Garland of the University of St Andrews. Garland and her colleagues analyzed ...

A team of researchers with members from the University of St Andrews, Universidad San Francisco de Quito and the CETACEA Ecuador Project's Acoustic Ecology Program has found that songs created by ...

North Pacific right whales are quite rare. So rare, that when when scientists recently heard some singing, they were astounded. After all, these whales aren’t supposed to sing. “Singing has not been ...

After it was first recorded in the 1960s, the haunting song of the humpback whale became an environmental rallying cry, a source of scientific curiosity and even a meditation soundtrack. Since then, ...