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

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

In 2014, scientists solved a 50-year-old mystery when they figured out that the so-called “bio-duck” sound that was often recorded in the Southern Ocean was being produced by Antarctic minke ...

A young minke whale beached itself and died after several days wandering around south Puget Sound -- an unusual detour for the deep-water species. Scientists were trying Friday to figure out what ...

June 20 -- The first time he heard the strange sound coming from the waters around Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Jason Gedamke thought he had somehow slipped into a science fiction movie. "The ...

Minke whale call. This is the same sound transformed by a different type of wavelet. There are hundreds of wavelet types that could be used, ...

The mysterious “bio-duck” sounds in the ocean that have baffled seafarers for decades are actually calls from unseen populations of minke whales, scientists say. The discovery detailed in the ...

A group of Antarctic minke whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica. Ari Friedlaender It turns out, Antarctic minke whales actually produce the duck-like sound, Risch and her colleagues have found.

“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 ...

Whales that have become stranded in the sound included a humpback that floated to Stonington on the edge of the sound from Rhode Island in July 2012; a fin whale in New Haven in 1993; long-finned ...

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 ...