A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

No, blue whales aren't going silent off California. Here's why.

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, scientists have installed a variety of research equipment – for example, special ...

The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

The ocean is going silent. Blue whales, the gentle leviathans that swim in all but one of the world’s oceans, are the singers ...

What the team wound up with was the first ever continuous recording of the remoras attaching themselves to a host organism, in this case a blue whale more than 30 times their size.

Scientists confirmed some blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, were spending part of the year back in the area by taking underwater audio recordings that captured the whales' distinct songs ...

Many of these underwater twirls occurred as whales dove for prey. A blue whale typically spots a dense krill swarm by the dark patch it leaves on the water's surface as seen from below.

Scientists confirmed some blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, were spending part of the year back in the area by taking underwater audio recordings that captured the whales' distinct songs ...

A study based on five years of underwater recordings shows that blue whales off the California coast switch from nighttime to daytime singing as they migrate to winter breeding grounds.

Between 1998-2018 only one blue whale was spotted by scientists off the coasts of South Georgia. In February 2020, there were dozens of sightings Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...