Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

Blue whales have been singing less, and it could be a bellwether of climate change. Warming oceans affect the availability of their only food source, krill, and according to a study published in the ...

A hungry whale is a quiet whale. A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalized less after a marine heat wave decimated their prey, making whale songs a barometer of the effects of ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, scientists have installed a variety of research equipment – for example, special hydrophones to record the sounds the sea makes. Yes, if you thought that everything ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent Monterey Bay study found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

(NewsNation) — A significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales has researchers and wildlife advocates alarmed. A 2025 study published in the journal PLoS One shows global heatwaves ...

Scientists say blue whales are singing less. It's not really singing. It's more like squeaking, but they used to do it all the time, and now they only do it sometimes. The singing helps them find ...

As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze ...