The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the US and Canada, along the Pacific Coast, lives an odd-looking fish known as the rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii).

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 ...

Greg Bambenek remembers as a kid going out on the Mississippi River with his dad, putting out set lines for flathead catfish. In a rowboat, the two would set out 50 baits, all suspended from one long ...

We generally don't think of fish as being a vocal bunch – after all, anglers don't typically use "fish calls" to lure them in. According to a new study, however, approximately two-thirds of all fish ...

It’s the little fish that roared. One of the world’s smallest fish, measuring about half an inch long, can produce sounds as loud as fireworks or a jet engine, a new study says. Danionella cerebrum, a ...

Summer is here, and beaches and docks are full of the sounds of people having fun: splashing in the water, revving motor boats, thumping sand into castle shapes. If you can find a quieter spot of ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...