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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When underwater, humans cannot determine where a sound comes from. Sound travels about five times faster there than on land. That makes directional hearing, or sound localization, nearly impossible ...

New tool combines 360° video with spatial audio recording to accurately identify fish through sound. Recordings are the most extensive bank of natural fish sounds published to date, including many ...

When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism. One summer day when we were kids, my brother and I ...

You may not think of fish as being noisy, but they can actually be a pretty vocal bunch. A new AI system is able to quickly identify specific fish calls within general reef noise, allowing scientists ...

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

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 ...