The East Mediterranean has also seen another invasive Red Sea fish in the last decade: the silver-cheeked toadfish. Known as ...
Most Sausalito residents know the humming toadfish, whose loud and incessant underwater droning all summer long keeps angry shore dwellers and houseboat residents awake for nights. The sound -- 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this lab image, the toadfish's twin bladders are visible in the middle of its body. There’s nothing like a bizarre fish call to shake you out of your complacency about the universe. With that in ...
Consuming invasive species "can turn this challenge into an opportunity... and help limit the environmental threat," says the ...
The simple-sounding grunts and hoots of the toadfish contain surprisingly complex information. Sounds hidden within the toadfish calls may communicate everything from, “It’s me again, can we spawn?” ...
RARELY seen starry toadfish — which can be fatal if consumed — have been washing up on a Sydney beach this past week and at least one expert is baffled as to why. The speckled specimens, known as ...
I just returned from my annual fly fishing trip to Cape Cod for Striped Bass. It's a trip I try to do every year during the first half of June. The Cape isn't overrun with tourist traffic yet, and the ...