As the sun sets and the sweltering heat gives way to a balmy evening, there's one sound that fills the air, both beloved and bothersome: the rhythmic symphony of chirping crickets. However, ...

Sophia Anner performs dissections to preserve and weigh reproductive tissues of crickets. This is one measure of reproductive investment researchers assessed in crickets exposed to human-generated ...

“So what you’re listening to now, that’s a recording from the rain forest.” That’s Marc Holderied of the University of Bristol in the U.K. He specializes in bioacoustics: how animals produce sound and ...

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns—from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to the ...