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 ...

Above: Philip Souza listens to the sound of fish in Port Aransas. When Philip Souza gets ready to work in his unusual island-based recording studio, he activates an “On Air” sign to warn others to be ...

FishSounds.net is the first online, interactive library for the sounds fish make when communicating or interacting with their environment. Fish sounds provide scientists valuable data for studying and ...

My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ashlee Lillis’ interview subjects don’t talk. But they have plenty to say through grunts, growls, clicks and other odd noises. “I put my hydrophone — which is our underwater microphone — on the end of ...

The hottest water temperatures in years have depleted oxygen levels in Long Island’s North Shore harbors and may have contributed to a recent spate of fish kills, a Stony Brook University marine ...

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 ...