Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male chimpanzee named Ayumu say the animal’s steady rhythms and expressive ‘play...
An analysis of two 240-million-year-old coelacanth fossils suggests a bizarre sensory adaptation: an ossified lung that transmitted sound to the inner...
In the cold, wave-battered channels off southern Chile, scientists have identified what they say is a new species of the steamer duck genus Tachyeres,...
A team of scientists at New York University has created a version of the exotic phase of matter in which particles levitate acoustically and interact by...
Flower visitors, including pollinators, produce characteristic sounds through flapping wing movements during flight. These sounds may provide key information...
New research from the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz suggests the ability to keep time is not unique to our species.
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Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can...
Apes and monkeys possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal membranes, which disappeared from humans through evolution to allow...
An international team of researchers has analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over...
If you can wiggle your ears, you can use the auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These muscles helped change the shape...
In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According...
Conservation requires accurate information about species occupancy, populations and behavior. However, gathering these data for elusive, solitary species,...
In reference to the otherworldly sounds by which these treefrogs of the genus Boophis fill Malagasy rainforests, some of them reminiscent of sounds of...
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are highly social mammals that communicate using clicks. According to new research, they can combine and modulate...
During sleep, sporadically, it is possible to find neural patterns of activity in areas of the avian brain that are activated during the generation of...
A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University has found that a school of fish moving together in just the right way is stunningly effective at noise...
Danionella cerebrum, a translucent fish species of only 12 mm length, produces high amplitude sounds exceeding 140 dB (re. 1 µPa, at a distance of one...
The Whale-SETI team, which includes researchers from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, has been studying...
Greater honeyguides (Indicator indicator), a species of African bird, are well known to guide other species to beehives. They have even been known to work...
