That’s how Washington State University neuroscientist Allison Coffin goes about catching midshipman fish — at least during mating season. Standing on the rocky, oyster-covered shoreline of Hood Canal, ...

What do you look for when choosing an amazing restaurant? Probably things like great food, attentive service, and delightful ambiance—and by "delightful ambiance," you almost certainly don't mean ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The finned crooner in question is the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - As fish tales go, this is one more that sounds too good to be true - but it is true. A motion-activated novelty singing fish known as Big Mouth Billy Bass apparently scared off a ...

Most Sausalito residents know the humming toadfish, whose loud and incessant underwater droning all summer long keeps angry shore dwellers and houseboat residents awake for nights. The sound -- a ...

The Big Mouth Billy Bass and other singing fish were a scourge first delivered to us in the late 90s. [Kevin Heckart] has been teaching them to sing new songs without the tinny sound quality and hokey ...

A neurobiologist, an artist, and a composer recently presented their collaborative "singing electric fish" installation to thousands of people attending the STRP Festival, one of the largest art and ...

What did one California singing fish say to the other? We’re not entirely sure either, but if anyone might be able to translate, it would be the researchers at Cornell University. In a new study of ...

Fish aren't known for their impressive singing ability, although some can grunt and hum, yet singing originated in lungfish, according to new research that also determined how songbirds consistently ...

In the 1980s, people living on houseboats in the San Francisco Bay were puzzled by a droning hum of unknown origin that started abruptly in the late evening and stopped suddenly in the morning. A ...