New recordings show Hawaiian monk seals use many more sounds than scientists ever realized.

Researchers discovered that Hawaiian monk seals use a surprisingly complex range of underwater sounds, including new call ...

Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds – the ‘thwop’, ‘muah’, and ‘boop’s of a humpback whale, for example, or the boing of a minke whale.

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Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...

Today's guest post is presented courtesy of Lauren Freeman, an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Lab. She studies how humans impact ocean habitats including coral reefs and coastal ...

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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 ...

Soundscape ecology is a non-invasive method for monitoring ecosystem diversity and health, but process behind it is still very time-consuming. By Charlotte Hu Updated Dec 9, 2021 3:04 PM EST Get the ...

Adding to that list of dangers, a new study suggests that ocean warming could also accelerate the speed of sound underwater, threatening a fragile balance of noise that many marine species require to ...

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...