Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...

As a lifelong fishkeeper, I’m familiar with noisy fish. Perhaps my favorite noisy aquarium fish are the Synodontis catfishes, which produce a rasping sound resembling a growl that can easily be heard ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive sounds and determined that it's possible to differentiate between the sounds ...

Cows moo. Wolves howl. Birds tweet. And fish, it turns out, make all sorts of ruckus. "People are often surprised to learn that fish make sounds," said Audrey Looby, a doctoral candidate at the ...

Gulf Corvina look pretty ordinary—they're a couple of feet long and silvery. Yet the sounds they make—when millions get together to spawn—are a kind of wonder of the natural world. It's also why they ...

A newly developed acoustic camera has captured the most extensive collection of wild fish sounds ever recorded, revealing the surprising diversity of communication on coral reefs. The device, known as ...

As the day fades to evening over the coastline of La Jolla, Calif., a chorus begins under the ocean surface. In the kelp forests just off of the rocky cliffs, a symphony of fish sounds—from grunts and ...

Summer is coming, and soon beaches will be full of the sounds of people having fun: splashing in waves, thwacking kadima balls, thumping sand into castle shapes. If you can find a quieter spot of ...

Cornell University's Andrew Bass explains for the first time how the plainfin midshipman fish can hear its own voice and outside sounds at the same time. (Journal of Neuroscience, June 29, 2005).

According to an international team of researchers based in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, using recordings of reef sounds may increase reef fish stocks depleted by shipping traffic, underwater ...