My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...

When underwater, humans cannot determine where a sound comes from. Sound travels about five times faster there than on land. That makes directional hearing, or sound localization, nearly impossible ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Advances in evolutionary understanding have given researchers a deeper appreciation of a very sonorous underwater world. From finding a mate to ...

A school of American shad may function as a giant ear that enables the fish to hear the ultrasonic clicks of hunting dolphins. Experiments suggest the hearing of individual shad isn’t sensitive enough ...