A mysterious underwater noise recorded in 1997, the “Bloop,” fuelled years of speculation about megalodon and other undiscovered giants. But NOAA’s long-running investigation eventually traced the ...

Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

The mysterious 'Bloop' noise detected off Florida in 1997 baffled scientists for years, with many convinced it was some unknown creature lurking in the depths - but the real explanation was far more s ...

Back in the late 1990s, NOAA’s Acoustic Monitoring Project recorded a series of haunting, creepy noises from deep beneath the ocean’s surface (you can hear it in the audio above). When this recording ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

In 1997, scientists detected a strange sound unlike anything they'd heard before in 1997 - but years later they managed to figure out the culprit. Some people believed the mysterious ocean sound - ...

When the Bloop was first reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the media began to speculate that it was caused by a giant undersea creature. In 1997, the Bloop was picked up ...

In the summer of 1997, scientists recorded a strange, loud noise originating from an area west of Chile's southern coast. They dubbed it "the bloop." While searching for underwater volcanoes, ...