It isn’t Halloween season, so why are you hearing terrifying screams in your local forests? There’s one particular reason for that, which depends on where you live. In late winter, red foxes get ...

Every animal screams because screaming is fun; every animal is capable of recognizing screams because suffering is universal and we will all eventually die alone. An illuminating study via the ...

Just a few miles from downtown Ithaca, eerie screams can be heard piercing the night. The alarming cries sound like a woman screaming, say some who have heard them. The sounds are enough to send ...

Charles Darwin, when musing about the evolution of emotion, pointed out the similarities in how animals mouth off. “With many kinds of animals, man included,” he wrote in 1872, “the vocal organs are ...

For years, people assumed sharks were the silent type, but that’s not true, and they aren’t alone when it comes to creatures like sharks that make noises. Some of the world’s strangest creatures make ...

Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy with a small team: a fully explorable ...

NOTE: This episode contains multiple high-pitched noises (human and other animals) that some listeners might find startling or distressing. What do horror movies and marmots have in common? Screams ...