Trying to find a whale song in the ocean is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But now, UNSW Sydney researchers say they've trained a model, with just a single case study, to find blue whale ...
The blue whale is not merely the biggest animal alive today. At roughly 33 metres in length, it is the largest creature to have ever existed on Earth, dwarfing even the biggest dinosaurs that once ...
Somewhere in the North Pacific, a whale has been calling at a frequency of approximately 52 hertz since the late 1980s. Underwater listening systems have tracked its movements across entire ocean ...
A new tool can detect blue whale calls with almost 100% accuracy, despite only being trained on one sample song. The tool has the potential to transform how scientists analyze rare and elusive species ...
During the Cold War, a military system built to track Soviet submarines accidentally captured a strange 'song' that kept ringing on the ocean floor.Somewhere in the Pacific, more than 30 years after ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First recorded in 1989, a whale has been vocalizing at 52 hertz—a much higher frequency than is typical for blue or fin whales—for decades.
“Most of us don’t hear a whale call and think, ‘Wow, look at the special theory of relativity in action.’” Reading time 3 minutes While tracking whale calls near Massachusetts, oceanographer John ...