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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that fish can talk? Well, sort of, anyway. To be more specific, some fish make sounds that, according to a new study published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, are used in patterns that ...

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, ...

A common species of shark in New Zealand has been recorded making clicking sounds underwater. Researchers hypothesise that the noise comes from the spotted estuary smooth-hound forcefully snapping its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...