Philip Souza’s research is focused on the sounds that fish along the Texas Gulf Coast make to attract mates or defend territory. Philip Souza, a graduate student at UT Austin's Marine Science ...

Above: Philip Souza listens to the sound of fish in Port Aransas. When Philip Souza gets ready to work in his unusual island-based recording studio, he activates an “On Air” sign to warn others to be ...

Closeup of the head of a male Gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta Toadfish are close relatives of midshipman (same family of teleost fish) that also vocalizes to attract females to his nest (there is no ...

The grouchy-looking toadfish might not be the most attractive creature in the ocean, but that doesn't mean it won't do its best to lure in some loving. To attract a mate, the toadfish sings using a ...

The monikers and nicknames we’ve doled out to most fish species tend toward the obvious. You don’t have to be an avid angler or an ichthyologist (a scientist who studies fish)—heck, you don’t even ...

Summer is here, and beaches and docks are full of the sounds of people having fun: splashing in the water, revving motor boats, thumping sand into castle shapes. If you can find a quieter spot of ...

Lipofuscin pigment bodies in the cardiac endothelium of the Gulf toadfish measure up to 2.0 µ in diameter. Their histochemical staining characteristics and ultrastructure differ slightly from those of ...