I grew up in northeast Ohio in the 1970s, which meant, as a duck hunter , I grew up hearing duck sounds from mallards and black ducks, both of which quack. My father and I didn’t attempt to call wood ...

A QUACKING car horn that alerts pedestrians without making them stressed has been invented by noise gurus. The device, sounding like a synthesised duck, performed as well as a traditional honk but was ...

Mystery of duck quack sound in ocean finally solved Fir0002 A 50-year-old mystery involving duck quack sounds coming from the ocean has finally been solved by scientists. The strange duck sound was ...

Ocean researchers have recorded unidentified "quack" sounds in the sea for years. Credit: Mayehem / Getty Images Both scientists and sailors alike have recorded unique, strange noises in the ocean for ...

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.

A duck quack fits the bill as a less stressful alternative to car horns, scientists have found. Researchers at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea, tested variations of the classic “ah-oo-gah” ...

The mysterious “bio-duck” sounds in the ocean that have baffled seafarers for decades are actually calls from unseen populations of minke whales, scientists say. The discovery detailed in the journal ...