In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.

In 1997, ocean researchers recorded a massive underwater sound so loud it was picked up by sensors over 3,200 km apart. They named it the Bloop — and nobody could explain it. It was louder than whales ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on ...