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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – It’s not exactly Tony serenading Maria in “West Side Story,” but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates. OK, calling it singing may be a stretch. It’s more of a hum.

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 ...

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?” ...

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 ...