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.

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.

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A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ...

Like corn kernels in slowly heating oil, the orca sightings began sparse and unpredictable. But at some imperceptible moment, ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship ...

Fog clings to the Golden Gate, swallowing the booming horns of cargo ships as they attempt to warn other vessels of their presence. Onboard a small research vessel nearby, underwater microphones ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn't feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

UPDATE: Humpback whale stranded on the Oregon Coast to be euthanized A humpback whale that spent the weekend trapped in fishing nets and then stranded on shore near Yachats was still breathing on ...