When underwater, humans cannot determine where a sound comes from. Sound travels about five times faster there than on land. That makes directional hearing, or sound localization, nearly impossible ...

My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...