The grouchy-looking toadfish might not be the most attractive creature in the ocean, but that doesn't mean it won't do its best to lure in some loving. To attract a mate, the toadfish sings using a ...

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 ...

How do you know when a male toadfish is looking for love? Easy—just listen for the grunts and boops. Like some birds and frogs, toadfish sing to find a mate. In fact, if you didn’t know what to look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The simple grunting sound of the toadfish might contain surprisingly complex information. Birds, amphibians and mammals use hard-to-discern sounds to add complexity to their vocal information, but the ...

Philip Souza’s research is focused on the sounds that fish along the Texas Gulf Coast make to attract mates or defend territory. Philip Souza, a graduate student at UT Austin's Marine Science ...

If you’ve spent time in the shallow waters of Chesapeake Bay or the Atlantic seaboard, you’ve likely encountered a fish with a face only a mother could love. “Toadfishes are very different from a ...