In case you didn’t already think that bats’ ability to navigate with their ears instead of their eyes was cool enough, get this: Mexican free-tailed bats can actually use biological sonar to jam the ...

What animal super power would you pick, if you could choose any? Cats' eyes, to see in the dark... or bats' ears, to navigate by sonar... or the dinosaurs' ability to detect ultraviolet light?

The last several decades have seen an explosive uptick in the number of mass stranding events (MSEs) involving certain types of whales, prompting researchers to embark on a perennial quest to ...

A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. A new study has shown that prestin has also independently evolved to play a critical role in the ...

A new set of rules might be in the works for the U.S. Navy's use of sonar off the Washington and Oregon coasts. The goal is to decrease the harm that sonar does to marine mammals. The National Marine ...

Last spring Kenneth Balcomb, a marine mammalogist, woke to find an unsettling situation outside his Abaco Island home in the Bahamas: a 16-foot Cuvier's beaked whale weighing some 2 tons stranded in ...

At first blush, the explanation laid out today by 21 experts in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B seems implausible. Millions of years of evolution have turned whales into perfectly calibrated ...

Exposing a bottle-nosed dolphin to a couple of minutes of nearby sonar pinging could cause some temporary hearing impairment, a new test finds. What sonar does to marine mammals has become a hotly ...

Bat sonar is so much better than anything devised by human technology that the little creatures seem to enjoy rubbing it in. “The bats were essentially turning to us and thumbing their noses,” ...

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar that could harm whales and other marine life. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ...

The ecstatic prog-pop futures of Baltimore’s Animal Collective have been added to the bill for this year’s Sonar festival in Barcelona. The band will appear before Orbital at SonarClub on Saturday ...