Things never quite go as planned in the field. We found that out in March when our team from the Environmental Acoustics Laboratory at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography got boots on ...

Underwater microphones are helping researchers understand more about humpback whales as the creatures migrate along Australia's east coast. Hydrophones can remain underwater for more than six months, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate.

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

This is the third consecutive year that a humpback (or humpbacks) have been seen in the Sound, after not being here for a century. Whales fall under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. There are federal ...