Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

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 ...

University of Victoria biologists have discovered that fish can be identified by sound alone, finding that even closely related species produce distinct vocalizations — a breakthrough that could ...

In 1986, neuroscientist Andrew Bass had just landed a job as an assistant professor at Cornell University when he decided to pay a visit to the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco to see the ...

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 ...

Last week it was a tarpon, this week it's triggerfish as the summer ocean temps are drawing in more warm water fish. The temp was pushing 70 degrees in several surf locales, but off the beach it was a ...

Triggerfish, a fun and tasty fish, are being caught off the coast of New Jersey. Bluefin and yellowfin tuna are being caught at the Triple Wrecks. The summer season is in full swing now, the ...

Last time I went “deep sea fishing,” it was on a little boat off warm, tropical Miami Beach — not exactly battling Arctic ice storms on the Deadliest Catch. We went about 200 yards offshore. There's ...