Using long-term passive acoustic recorders, the agency has kept an ear out for populations of marine mammals in distant locations that are very hard for humans to access. Sound waves travel further ...

Baleen whales come to feast on the bounty, and in 2010, two bowhead whales entered the bay to gorge. As the pair came within 100 kilometers of one another, they were visually out of range, but could ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century ...

The two whales have become a familiar sight, often seen traveling and breaching together in the waters off Pacifica ... appears to be increasing. These baleen whales have always traveled through the ...

The secret to how baleen whales – the largest mammals to have ever lived – sing to each other underwater lies in their unique ...

A new study offers the first compelling evidence that baleen whales can synchronize their dives despite being many miles apart. “The possibility of acoustically connected whales, which seem to ...

Citation: Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source (2024, September 10) retrieved 24 September 2024 from https ...

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers suggest a new designation of the humpback whales they study: tool wielders. Researchers have known that humpback whales create "bubble-nets" to hunt, but they have ...

This whizzing tone using both low and high frequency pings sounds somewhat electronic or mechanical, unlike more melodic songs made by some baleen whales. Now, this strange vocalization has been ...

from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive – and scientists have only recently understood how ...

Megalodon, the giant shark species that disappeared around 3.6 million years ago, was the most ferocious creature that ever ...