I was under the assumption that sharks are silent fish, so they wouldn't make any active sounds," she told ABC. The marine biologist had captured seven rig sharks in New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour and ...

Researchers made the first known recordings of sharks making sounds after noticing they made clicks while being handled at a ...

Some animals make the strangest, most unexpected sounds that will leave you speechless. From deep-sea creatures with eerie calls to land animals that sound like screaming humans, nature’s ...

Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound ...

Now, a new study has found that rig sharks handled by researchers deliberately make short, sharp clicks of relatively high peak frequencies. The recordings, published in a new study in the journal ...

The clicking behaviour has been described in the new study as the first documented case of a shark deliberately making sound ...

Scientists believe that the chirps may be a defense mechanism, as many predators of rig sharks can hear the sound. More research must be done to understand how the animals make the clicks and if ...

In this ground-breaking series, David Attenborough explores the extraordinary ways that animals hear and produce sound, and how it influences the decisions they make. Secret World of Sound uses ...

"I had never considered that any of the sharks I was studying could make any sort of sound. I was under the ... Harbour and received three more of the animals from local fishermen, with five ...