The name is not very appealing: Grunt. • One of the most common fish in the Gulf of Mexico is saddled with one of the worst names, right up there with dogfish or pigfish. • But to dismiss the grunt as ...

Toadfish and midshipman fish use a variety of different sounds to attract mates and scare off rivals. Now U.S. researchers have found that the area of a fish's brain that drives vocalization is ...

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 ...

At the base of our brain, where the back of our neck meets our head, may lurk the voice of a 400 million-year-old fish. Chirps, croaks, growls – even the dulcet tones of the human voice – might have a ...

A quick fishing trip delivers the perfect surprise — a lively grunt fish ready for the pan. After a clean and easy fillet, it’s straight to the skillet for a golden, crispy cook-up. Fresh, flavorful, ...

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 ...

A yellowmouth grouper, a white grunt and an amaco jack fish were all recently certified as state fishing records by the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF). The yellowmouth groper, ...

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UC San Diego music professor Lei Liang and his students are using the sounds of snapping shrimp and grunting fish to compose ocean-inspired music concerts. As the music plays, audiences are surrounded ...

Sailors spotted it floating in the water at the Darsena Medicea marina in the town of Portoferraio, on the Italian island of Elba. When they pulled it out, what they first presumed was a shark ...