No one knows for sure what caused a humming noise that annoyed residents of the west Seattle neighborhood on Puget Sound, but one theory is the buzz was a fish mating call. Noise abatement inspectors ...

Don’t blame a fish mating call for the humming noise that annoyed West Seattle residents over the Labor Day weekend. A University of Washington associate professor who studies the Midshipman fish says ...

"Each spring, all adults of the species migrate to one site, the Colorado River Delta in the uppermost portion of the Gulf [of California], to form one spawning aggregation of several million fish," ...

Residents of Tampa, Florida have reported hearing strange noises coming from the bay for years, and now scientists believe it may be fish mating — very loudly, according to reports. The deep, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WSVN) — A Florida woman is on a mission to make sense of a mysterious drumming sound that erupted from the water near her home, but experts believe it could be a mating call for fish. “It ...

Black drum fish, which typically live off the Atlantic Coast, produce a sound similar to a speaker’s bass when they mate, according to a fisheries program manager. (Getty Images) Stephanie Kaltenbaugh ...

Evolution has so precisely honed certain specialized muscles involved in fish mating calls that the muscles are now physically incapable of much else, including any significant locomotion, biologists ...

Groupers produce distinct sounds associated with courtship, territoriality or reproduction. An autonomous mobile wave glider and passive acoustics were deployed to survey two marine protected areas on ...