SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa first went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of ...

A baby orca has been spotted with the Puget Sound population of killer whales. The new arrival -- scientists don't know yet if it's male or female -- brings the number of orcas up to 86. The ...

Project CETI is harnessing AI to understand the complex communication system of sperm whales. In a new study, the project's scientists used AI to decode thousands of sperm whale clicks. CETI founder ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.

A new baby orca born to J Pod is a ray of hope for the endangered southern resident killer whales. J63 was spotted by Mark Malleson, field biologist for the Center for Whale Research, on April 6. J ...

The J pod of endangered southern resident orcas has a new baby. Researchers Maya and Mark Sears spotted a new calf with J pod on Tuesday. The Center for Whale Research hadn’t spotted the baby in ...