THIS FISH TALE is keeping people up at night in Brooklyn. Bay Ridge residents stumped by the origins of a mysterious humming noise that has cost them countless hours of lost sleep for more than a year ...

PHILADELPHIA ­-- Evolution has so precisely honed certain specialized muscles involved in fish mating calls that the muscles are now physically incapable of much else, including any significant ...

The fastest muscles in the world belong not to Usain Bolt or even a cheetah, but to the sluggish toadfish. Natalie Angier describes the toadfish in today’s New York Times, and her story is science ...

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 ...

The sing-off begins when the sun goes down. Every night off the coast of Bocas del Toro, Panama, Bocon toadfish start calling from their burrows, trying to win over females by showing off their vocal ...

A new mystery in the saga of Sausalito's humming toadfish has finally been solved: It's hormones and hearing all the way. For more than 25 years, houseboat dwellers along the Sausalito waterfront have ...

Lusitanian toadfish were the focus of a study that evaluated how much interference humans have on their underwater communication. A Lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus) at low tide in the ...

Fish can eavesdrop on the calls of dolphins to avoid getting eaten, a new study suggests. "Probably a lot of fish can do this," said lead researcher Luke Remage-Healey, a behavioral ...

Evolution has so precisely honed certain specialized muscles involved in fish mating calls that the muscles are now physically incapable of much else, including any significant locomotion, biologists ...