Most people picture lions, roosters, or even cicadas when they think about noisy animals. Their sounds grab attention because ...

J-Pod, a group of Southern Resident killer whales, was recently spotted in Puget Sound for seven consecutive days, marking a ...

This observation was published in a study titled, 'Imitation of novel conspecific and human speech sounds in the killer whale ...

Sperm whales, denizens of the deep ocean, rely on sound for survival in their extreme environment. They produce the loudest ...

Facebook was flooded with videos of orcas splashing and jumping as they made their way under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to Fox Island.

A new J-Pod orca calf was spotted last week in the Puget Sound, less than two weeks after a mother carried her dead baby near the San Juan Islands.

Suddenly, one whale emerged within 65 feet of the stern, and Robert Pitman, a whale researcher at the University of Oregon, ...

For centuries, whale calls echoed through the oceans as mysterious, haunting sounds. Now, scientists believe sperm whales may hold the closest thing to human language in the animal kingdom. By ...

Project CETI is harnessing AI to understand the complex communication system of sperm whales. In a new study, the project's scientists used AI to decode thousands of sperm whale clicks. CETI founder ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using machine learning to research sperm whale communication habits -- and they're learning unprecedented things. Their new study, ...

This photo shows gray whale CRC531. Some whales are feeding in the north Puget Sound earlier this year, according to the Orca Network. Orca Network/Marilyn Armbruster At over 10,000 miles, gray whales ...

PM: The Southern Resident Killer Whales of J-Pod have been seen in central Puget Sound, “coming south all day” per Kersti Muul. That would be their first visit of the season, she adds. But they’re in ...