Most people expect a dog to bark or a cat to meow. But nature doesn’t always follow the script. Across the animal kingdom, some creatures produce sounds that are so strange or human-like that they ...

A study shows that rattlesnake rattling works as a powerful warning signal that scares animals and prevents dangerous encounters in the wild.

For years, people assumed sharks were the silent type, but that’s not true, and they aren’t alone when it comes to creatures like sharks that make noises. Some of the world’s strangest creatures make ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

Some animals make the strangest, most unexpected sounds that will leave you speechless. From deep-sea creatures with eerie calls to land animals that sound like screaming humans, nature’s soundscape ...

From Suzanne Simard to Ed Yong, science journalists and researchers have probed the myriad ways plants and animals communicate: chemical signals amid old-growth redwoods, interplay between insects and ...

If you’re a shark movie fan, you’ve probably watched more than one scene in which a shark roars as it attacks its prey. But according to shark expert Greg Skomal, such a sound is just Hollywood magic.

Researchers in New Zealand found that a small species of shark makes noises with their teeth when touched by humans Paul Caiger Scientists say they recorded the first-ever shark sounds, despite the ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Shipping is one of the main sources of human-made sound in the ocean. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, ...