The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

Have you ever seen a picture or a video of a whale jumping out of the water? If you have, you’ve seen a whale breaching.

Dwarf minke whales off the Great Barrier Reef were recorded making sounds resembling ‘the swoosh of a Star Wars lightsabre’.

“For minke whales, I don’t think there are a lot of details on how they use sound day-to-day,” Parks said, adding that there are other baleen species “where we’re just matching species ...

The cacophony in the oceans is preventing whales from making themselves heard. New research, published in Nature, reveals that the way baleen whale throats have evolved prevents them from singing ...

Extraordinary footage has captured the distinctive call of the elusive Dwarf Minke Whale at the Great Barrier Reef. The ...

The Minke whale that washed ashore in Westhampton Beach is the eighth large whale the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society has responded to this year as part of a NOAA Fisheries Unusual Mortality ...

However, scientists have yet to directly observe a minke whale producing these sounds in real time. Minke whales, a kind of baleen whale, are difficult to study because they prefer icy waters ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a ...

Drilling foundations for offshore wind turbines and sound pulses used to prepare for the 900-foot towers may be creating a “death zone” for whales, a former Greenpeace chief claims. Patrick ...

While the San Juan Islands are known as Washington’s whale central, over the course of the year, orcas, humpbacks, minke and gray whales pass through Puget Sound where Seattleites can glimpse ...

Baleen whales, including today’s blue, humpback, and fin whales rely on sounds to live in their watery world.Their songs must be able travel far in the murky, dark ocean so that they can find ...