A healthy coral reef is a noisy place, and dead reefs are almost silent by comparison. Scientists played the sounds of healthy reefs near dead ones and found that it caused fish, crustaceans and other ...

Healthy coral reefs have rich soundscapes, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp. Larval coral uses these sounds as cues to identify the best ...

In the waters off of the Jamaican coast, a team of artists and scientists are piping in some underwater ambiance for the ...

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Coral larvae may take note of those sounds. On the study's "healthy" reef, which had a large variety of low-frequency sounds, larval settlement was twice as high as the less-healthy or control sites. ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In case you missed it we’re spending this week revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the past year. Today we’re ...

How do baby coral find a new home in the open ocean? They listen—very closely—for reef sounds. Scientists at the University of Bristol in England had already discovered in the last few years that baby ...

A new AI method that can accurately detect coral reef health through sound recordings may remove the need for intensive visual studies by expert divers. A team of researchers from the University of ...

Healthy coral reefs buzz with the gurgles, burps, swishes and groans of their marine residents. In fact, coral reefs are one of the noisiest ecosystems in the world, according to researchers from the ...

Sunrise laughs, afternoon foghorns, sunset croaks and nighttime purrs — these are the sounds of Indonesian reefs returning to life, according to a new study. Most marine environment rehabilitation ...