QUESTION: Why do ducks quack? ANSWER: Braeleigh, I loved your question because even though I think about how animals act all the time, this was honestly something I had never thought about before! In ...

A mysterious duck-like sound recorded in the ocean around Antarctica has baffled scientists for decades, but the source of the sound has finally been found, researchers say. For more than 50 years, ...

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Since the 1960s, a strange, repetitious quacking noise called a “bio-duck,” which can frequently be heard in the Southern Ocean, has puzzled marine biologists and underwater acoustic experts. A new ...

It’s not just ex-NASA engineers who are trying to develop easier-on-the-ear car horns. Researchers in South Korea, too, have been working on creating the ideal honking sound that isn’t as grating as ...

There is an old wives’ tale that a duck’s quack has no echo. This has been proven not to be true in what can only be described as the best duck experiment ever. But the rumor has a basis in truth.

Everybody’s heard a duck quack before, but have you ever heard one quack for 30 seconds straight? Cheese and Quackers recently shared an adorable video of their duck, Oatmeal, quacking nonstop, and we ...