Music serves as the emotional heartbeat of New Year’s celebrations, bridging the gap between nostalgic reflection and the high-energy anticipation of a fresh start. From the soulful, traditional ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. When Eduardo Mercado first heard a humpback whale sing, he was fascinated by their rhythmic, moaning ...

When Lucy Zhang first listened to recordings of humpback whale songs, she didn’t expect to hear the makings of a symphony. But while playing the recordings, the Saratoga High School senior recognized ...

Any way you slice it, whales are fascinating animals. They vary greatly in size and behavior, have rich and deep cognitive and emotional lives, and many can communicate and negotiate their social and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

The waters of the West Coast are falling silent. Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on ...

Researchers detected a drop in blue whale songs off the coast of California following a marine heat wave. A six-year study by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) showed songs detected ...

Reading from their poem "Whale Fall With Me," the 2025–2026 Center for the Arts (CFA) Artist in Residence mayfield brooks described their recent work as an “opera somewhere in the void,” conjuring ...