The mysterious “bio-duck” sounds in the ocean that have baffled seafarers for decades are actually calls from unseen populations of minke whales, scientists say. The discovery detailed in the journal ...

It quacks like a duck, sort of. But the mystery creature of the Antarctic is more likely a whale. Submariners in the 1960s recorded strings of quick heartbeatlike pulses and nicknamed the unknown ...

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It may sound quacky, but mysterious duck-like sounds in the oceans are made by whales, a new study says. Scientists have been trying to decode the perplexing low-frequency sounds, which occur every ...

A mysterious duck-like sound recorded in the ocean around Antarctica has baffled scientists for decades, but the source of the sound has finally been found, researchers say. For more than 50 years, ...

The “bio-duck” noise is a mysterious sound that submarine operators and scientists have been hearing in Antarctic waters since the 1960s. Nobody was sure what generated the repeated, quack-like ...

Scientific advancements in the present greatly derive from historical findings, often unexplained, and the occurrence of the ...

Scientists have conclusive evidence that the source of a unique rhythmic sound, recorded for decades in the Southern Ocean and called the 'bio-duck,' is the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera ...

A strange noise, sounding much like a duck, has been heard in waters surrounding Antarctica for decades. The sounds have also been recorded in the waters off Western Australia and the Eastern Weddell ...