Fish stressed by noise are less able to fight off disease and prolonged exposure can lead to an early death, according to research on the consequences of man-made clamour on the natural world. Human ...

If you live in a small place, like an apartment or dorm room, you may want a quiet, yet entertaining pet that doesn’t disrupt the neighbors. It’s for this reason that many people dive into the world ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

The single biggest key to sound reduction, the team found, was the synchronization of the school's tail flapping—or actually the lack thereof. If fish moved in unison, flapping their tail fins at the ...

The foureye butterflyfish, a type of ray-finned fish, is one of the species that was found to make noise underwater. Credit: Aaron Rice One of the most famous films of undersea explorer Jacques ...

Once thought to be silent, fish turn out to produce a range of vocalizations—so polluting the oceans with noise could pose a danger to them. Whales are famous for their songs, but fish are often ...

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Otherwise known as a pearlspot cichlid, the green chromide is a species of fish that is native to fresh water habitats in southern India and Sri Lanka. (Image by Peter Corbett CC BY 2.0 via Courthouse ...