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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's the tiny fish called the Danionella cerebrum, found in streams in Myanmar. It can make sounds that exceed 140 decibels, which is as loud as fireworks or a jet engine. VERITY COOK: It's the ...