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 ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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?” ...

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 ...

Sheryl Wright was walking her dog Lucie at Yaroomba beach on Sunday at about 5am, a morning highlighted by an unusually large amount of dead fish washed up on shore, including scores of dead toadfish.