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 ...

"NO MATTER WHAT SPECIES," TIM FRIEND SAYS, "we're all concerned with the same topics of conversation–sex, real estate, who's boss, and what's for dinner." These and other topics are the subject of ...

A Cornell University neurobiologist on Thursday played videos of fish humming, grunting and growling, and claimed that our ability to talk got its evolutionary start in fish hundreds of millions of ...

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

This time of year, a lot of fish species are shoveling in as much food as they can to build calories in preparation for the springtime spawn. They’re feeding on just about anything that comes close ...

People aren’t the only ones who raise their voices at each other: Fish can shout, too. After catching some blacktail shiners — little minnows characterized by a big black splotch on their tail fin — ...

image: Newly hatched midshipman larvae (about 10-14 days old and 8-10 mm length), each attached to the surface of a small rock by an adhesive disk on the bottom surface of their yolk sac (larvae about ...

Newly hatched midshipman larvae (about 10-14 days old and 8-10 mm length), each attached to the surface of a small rock by an adhesive disk on the bottom surface of their yolk sac (larvae about 10-14 ...