Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

Lately, Fred Sharpe has been focusing on whale noises that can be heard at the surface. He says they're understudied compared ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

Abstract: The classification of marine mammal calls is of enormous significance for the protection of marine mammals. Acoustic methods are the most effective tools for studying and monitoring marine ...

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Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

Krotos, the sound design software developer whose tools are widely used in film, television, and video games such as Stranger ...

Senate leaders plan to take up a stopgap funding measure in a rare Friday session to test whether a Democratic logjam could finally break to end the longest partial government shutdown in history. But ...

The co-hosts of The View sounded the alarm on Thursday’s show about just how safe it is to fly now that the government has been shut down for 37 days. “So, there’s a shutdown because the Republicans ...

You probably know that hummingbirds can hover, if you've ever watched them feed. But these tiny pollinators lead fascinating lives, from eating to mating.