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 ...

Mystery solved A puzzling sound heard for decades in the waters of the Southern Ocean and off the Australian west coast has finally been identified as belonging to Antarctic minke whales. The findings ...

Since the 1960s, a strange, repetitious quacking noise called a “bio-duck,” which can frequently be heard in the Southern Ocean, has puzzled marine biologists and underwater acoustic experts. A new ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

They tracked this mysterious low-frequency sound in the southern ocean for decades but could not find its true source. Now, scientists are determined that this 'duck' like sound is actually coming ...

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 ...