Submarines detect threats across hundreds of miles of open ocean for a simple reason: sound moves roughly 4.4 times faster ...

A mysterious sound heard booming from deep under the ocean waves has finally been traced to a fascinating source. First recorded in 2014 in the west Pacific, the "biotwang" is actually the call of the ...

The ocean is a noisy place, buzzing with sounds created by wildlife, weather, seasons and earthquakes. For sea animals, these sounds form their natural “soundscape”, but a new article in Science shows ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1997, NOAA scientists recorded a haunting, strange sound in the southern Pacific Ocean's depths. Theories about the sound's ...

Scientists have developed a new method to locate the precise time and location that objects fall into our oceans. The method, developed by researchers from Cardiff University, uses underwater ...

Ocean researchers have recorded unidentified "quack" sounds in the sea for years. Credit: Mayehem / Getty Images Both scientists and sailors alike have recorded unique, strange noises in the ocean for ...

Kait Frasier is a marine bioacoustician in the Scripps Machine Listening Laboratory at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

Explore the lost dancing pavilions of Ocean Beach, where music and crowds once turned the sand into a lively coastal dance ...