Somewhere in the North Pacific, a whale has been calling at a frequency of approximately 52 hertz since the late 1980s. Underwater listening systems have tracked its movements across entire ocean ...

A new tool can detect blue whale calls with almost 100% accuracy, despite only being trained on one sample song. The tool has the potential to transform how scientists analyze rare and elusive species ...

If blue whales above water are only putatively blue, then below the surface they go indisputably turquoise. Balaenoptera musculus is a pale whale, and when seen through the blue filter of the ocean, ...

“Most of us don’t hear a whale call and think, ‘Wow, look at the special theory of relativity in action.’” Reading time 3 minutes While tracking whale calls near Massachusetts, oceanographer John ...

Researchers repurposed an AI model designed for visual identification tasks to detect Bryde’s whale calls contained with seismic data collected in the South China Sea. A whale call can be visualized ...