When large marine animals change their movement patterns, it often signals broader shifts in ocean conditions. Dr. Meynecke ...
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The ocean is teeming with the chirps, “boings” and grunts of underwater creatures. An international team of scientists are building a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, dubbed "Glubs," by ...
Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...
In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...
When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them. But when we habitually ignore ...
system for life as we know it. According to ocean scientists at MIT, it seems that massive ice fractures occur on Europa daily – about once every 30 seconds as a matter of fact. Such a phenomenon ...