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 ...

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish. The new findings by Johns Hopkins University engineers working with a high-tech ...

The cow goes moo. The duck goes quack. The dog goes woof. And the fish goes ... what, exactly? Toddlers aren’t the only ones asking this question. Scientists are eavesdropping on fish to research and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increasingly scientists are discovering unusual mechanisms by which fish make and hear secret whispers, grunts and thumps to attract mates and ward off the enemy. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

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 ...

Imagine the sound a haddock might make to communicate underwater. If you’re thinking it sounds like a Harley revving up its engine, you’re pretty close. Rodney Rountree, a marine biologist based at ...

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 ...

While a two-year-old can probably tell you what sound a dog or a cat makes, she might be stumped if you ask, what sound does a fish make? But that is what Ana Širović, an oceanographer at the Marine ...