A recording of whale song was launched into space aboard the Voyager spacecraft ...

For male humpback whales, singing is serious business. Their haunting, complex songs can last for hours and travel for miles underwater, playing a central role in reproduction during the winter ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

We humans love to put things in boxes, but nature doesn’t make it easy, which is why we’re constantly discovering new-to-science things right under our noses. Most lately that includes a new kind of ...

Older male humpback whales still got game. Elder whales have perfected their love songs over decades and are out-charming, out-singing and out-playing their younger rivals in one of the ocean’s most ...

For male humpback whales, singing is serious business. Their haunting, complex songs can last for hours and travel for miles underwater, playing a central role in reproduction during the winter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humpback whales photographed with drone off the coast of Kapalua, Hawaii. Mother whale and her calf splash in the warm Pacific ...

Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. – Humpback and bowhead whales are the only mammals other than humans thought to progressively change the songs they sing through a process of cultural learning. But maybe the ...

A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...

Humpback whales photographed with drone off the coast of Kapalua, Hawaii. Mother whale and her calf splash in the warm Pacific waters as two dolphins join in on then fun.© Justin ...