At the base of our brain, where the back of our neck meets our head, may lurk the voice of a 400 million-year-old fish. Chirps, croaks, growls – even the dulcet tones of the human voice – might have a ...

While they may lack some of the melodic qualities of birds or whales, there are almost 1,000 species of fish that use sounds to communicate, and possibly many more. Yet, despite nearly 150 years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wished you could swim like a fish? How about speak like one? In a paper recently published in the Journal of Fish ...

There are grunts and growls, knocks and croaks — but the wild sounds detected by a team of British Columbia researchers don't belong to any of the province's famous forest creatures. As we navigate ...

A species of fish makes grunting sounds by grinding its teeth. The French grunt fish (Haemulon flavolineatum; pictured) is thought to groan in distress by rubbing together its pharyngeal jaws, a ...

There are grunts and growls, knocks and croaks — but the wild sounds detected by a team of British Columbia researchers don't belong to any of the province's famous forest creatures. The noises are ...