Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

Animal Sounds in the Sea During World War II underwater-sound men were puzzled to hear weird noises that were not made by ships. Now it is known that many marine species emit, among other sounds, ...

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Eerie, fascinating and at times unnerving, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds to have been heard reverberating through the ocean. How baleen whales, which include humpback whales, are ...

Ashlee Lillis’ interview subjects don’t talk. But they have plenty to say through grunts, growls, clicks and other odd noises. “I put my hydrophone — which is our underwater microphone — on the end of ...

When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism. One summer day when we were kids, my brother and I ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

What's the rarest ocean animal? Discover the rare and endangered ocean animals along with those that are rare because they're elusive. The rarest ocean animal is the vaquita — Spanish for “little cow” ...