Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

The sing-off begins when the sun goes down. Every night off the coast of Bocas del Toro, Panama, Bocon toadfish start calling from their burrows, trying to win over females by showing off their vocal ...

A strange and disturbing sound is making for some sleepless nights for people who live near the Monterey Bay. But experts say the puzzling hum is probably just a fish. A toadfish, to be exact. The ...

This "Stars and Stripes" toadfish living in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan is one member of a very noisy kind of fish YURIKO NAKAO/Reuters/Corbis We tend to associate noise with man-made sounds: ...

The love song of the lonely toadfish is giving scientists new insight on fighting human muscular diseases. Blessed with a face that only a mother could love, some males of a type of toadfish called ...

PACIFIC GROVE (CBS SF) -- Strange noises that have been keeping Pacific Grove residents up at night may be the sound of their amphibian neighbors' mating calls. The droning hum originating from ...

THE traditional vast, brooding silence of the sea—beloved cliche of many a storyteller—is apparently an illusion. The inhabitants of the deep, by and large, make a considerable racket. Hunting ...

During spring, Lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus) suitors form choirs in Portugal's Tagus estuary to serenade the females, vibrating their swim bladders to produce a call, known as a ...