University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...

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 ...

BOSTON – Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time. If it works, the system could ...

Fish were discovered to make sounds more than 2,000 years ago, but they have gone largely unheard by humans. While a typical, bustling coral reef may be home to dozens of fish species, until recently, ...

Every angler has either heard or said, "be quiet or you will scare the fish." It's true that certain noises spook and scatter fish, while others can turn a normally docile swimmer into an eating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. In just one bizarre instance, ...

Ecologists may have captured the first deep-sea fish sounds, hidden among the sounds of dolphins and humpback, fin and pilot whales, they report in a new study. More than 50 years ago, researchers ...