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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Now scientists have finally figured out how these filter-feeding mari...
Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean.
Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean.
Baleen whales use a larynx, or voice box, anatomically modified to enable underwater vocalisation, researchers say.
Training of vocal muscles may be similar for humans because all vocal muscles are developmentally related.