Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Northern right whale dolphins swim just under the surface near British Columbia, Canada. Echolocation is a logical strategy in the ...

Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

Deep underwater and high in the night sky, creatures use sound to see what eyes cannot. Through evolutionary biology and acoustic science, this episode reveals how echolocation emerged in bats, whales ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the “echoic return signal” created ...

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Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

Calling in the ultrasonic range enables small bats to orient themselves in the dark and track down tiny insects. Louder calls travel farther, improving a bat's ability to detect their prey. It was ...

When listening to beluga whales, the sound of a crunch or a clapped jaw may be a reliable indication that a beluga whale just successfully captured or missed a fish. In a 2021 paper published on ...

There's a vast world around us that animals can perceive — but humans can't. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong uses the example of a dark room: Though it might seem that there would be ...

Nature’s own sonar system, echolocation occurs when an animal emits a sound wave that bounces off an object, returning an echo that provides information about the object’s distance and size. Over a ...

Northern right whale dolphins swim just under the surface near British Columbia, Canada. Echolocation is a logical strategy in the ocean, where sound travels five times faster than in air. Photograph ...