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A strange kind of humming fish has evolved a clever way to avoid deafening itself with its own noise, researchers have found. They say the same mechanism could be at work in other animals, including ...

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 ...

It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria – or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human ...

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

It’s the end of April and that means only one thing in Bay Ridge: it’s time for the return of the humming toadfish. The mysterious buzzing sound that kept half of Bay Ridge awake last year hasn’t ...

A mysterious humming noise that’s plaguing residents of Seattle may be the mating call of desperate male fish. Having ruled out factories as the source of the sound, scientists suggest that the ...

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