The simple-sounding grunts and hoots of the toadfish contain surprisingly complex information. Sounds hidden within the toadfish calls may communicate everything from, “It’s me again, can we spawn?” ...

In this lab image, the toadfish's twin bladders are visible in the middle of its body. There’s nothing like a bizarre fish call to shake you out of your complacency about the universe. With that in ...

How do you know when a male toadfish is looking for love? Easy—just listen for the grunts and boops. Like some birds and frogs, toadfish sing to find a mate. In fact, if you didn’t know what to look ...

Perhaps understandably, the male toadfish doesn't rely on his looks to attract females. He uses a bellowing, foghorn-like call to lure the ladies instead. But he'd better beware of his ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

No matter how off-key you might be, you’re still singing like a nightingale. Or a fish. Studies of the nervous systems of larval toadfish have revealed brain circuitry similar to that controlling the ...

In ‘a major breakthrough’, scientists are using algorithms to identify the clicks, calls and bleeps of marine life, as part of a 10-year project mapping noise under the sea On Goa’s coral reef in ...

This "Stars and Stripes" toadfish living in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan is one member of a very noisy kind of fish YURIKO NAKAO/Reuters/Corbis We tend to associate noise with man-made sounds: ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

From deafening monkey howls to snapping crustacean claws, animals use powerful sounds to do everything from claim territory to stun prey. “There’s such an enormous range of abilities and loudness in ...