Nature isn’t as quiet as it seems on a peaceful hike or during a soothing nature documentary. In the wild, animals compete in their thunderous Olympics, and the volume can get seriously extreme. But ...

April showers bring May flowers. April showers also make frogs explode into a chorus after spring rain. These frogs are not simply croaking for communication. The loudest frogs are signaling that ...

The ocean is a place of extremes. Pitch darkness, crushing pressure, and amid these lives creatures adapted to environments humans can barely fathom. Yet even among those extremes, sound plays a ...

Most people picture lions, roosters, or even cicadas when they think about noisy animals. Their sounds grab attention because we hear them in daily life or through recordings. But none of those come ...

Sharks at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah, glide silently behind glass walls — but just how silent is their world? A team of BYU researchers set out to discover how much of the ...

Animals often sense danger long before humans, a survival instinct honed by superior senses. Dogs detect high-frequency ...