This rising din threatens to drown out the ocean’s own voices—songs so well-structured that a leopard seal’s ( Hydrurga ...

Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

After graduating high school, Glazer took a gap year to pursue her desire to explore the underwater world. While living on ...

Sperm whales, denizens of the deep ocean, rely on sound for survival in their extreme environment. They produce the loudest ...

When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism. One summer day when we were kids, my brother and I ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...

Damien Pollard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Whales and other mammals rely on a balance of underwater sounds to survive. Climate change could be throwing off that fragile equilibrium. Adding to that list of dangers, a new study suggests that ...

FW-ASCH-5RR-0765 is a mystery tape. Includes outdoor sounds, such as ocean waves, a storm, and animal sounds (frogs?) Probably recorded on Long Island, NY, since the three tapes preceding it were ...

Blue whales, the Earth's largest animal, have gone silent, a development that has scientists worried about the future of the ...