A new mystery in the saga of Sausalito's humming toadfish has finally been solved: It's hormones and hearing all the way. For more than 25 years, houseboat dwellers along the Sausalito waterfront have ...

PACIFIC GROVE – It’s “odd,” “disturbing” and keeping Pacific Grove residents up at night. The droning hum emanates from the Monterey Bay and has baffled residents all summer long. One reader describes ...

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 ...

THIS FISH TALE is keeping people up at night in Brooklyn. Bay Ridge residents stumped by the origins of a mysterious humming noise that has cost them countless hours of lost sleep for more than a year ...

City Councilman Vince Gentile thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bay Ridge’s great hum-conundrum. But this columnist isn’t ready to award him a MacArthur grant. The lawmaker was obviously responding ...

When birds sing their elaborate songs, bats echolocate, rattlesnakes rattle and toadfish hum they use so-called superfast muscles, the fastest vertebrate muscles known. New research shows that these ...

It's not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates. OK, singing may be a stretch; it's more of a hum. But it turns out to be ...

This low hum is hardly ho-hum. People in the Stanwood and Camano Island area told The Herald in an Oct. 22 story about a bizarre low hum they were hearing that won’t go away. Since then, the story has ...

This "Stars and Stripes" toadfish living in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan is one member of a very noisy kind of fish YURIKO NAKAO/Reuters/Corbis We tend to associate noise with man-made sounds: ...